Miami and the Keys, 1992

Miami & the Florida Keys, 1992

Photos © Ruud Leeuw

By October the weather had turned dismal in the Dutch lowlands, unpleasant 'situations' at work for the both of us: all excellent reasons to flee the country for some 'sun and fun' in Florida and recharge the batteries. Actually, there is a festival of that name in Florida, but we took our personal 'sun & fun' to Miami and the Florida Keys!
This photo was taken at Key West.

Hurricane Andrew had been visiting Florida only weeks before us and had left a warzone in places...

I cannot begin to understand what it would feel like to have your house damaged to such an extend.

This situation also effected us, in a minor way: people had to leave their houses and were staying in hotels, insurance experts came down in droves and stayed in hotels, so availability of rooms was low and the prices were up...

But the flag is in top, proudly!

A look at Tamiami-Kendall airport: the nightmare of insurance companies!

Sharks, such as this Hammerhead shark, have a certain attraction to a 7 year old kid!
This was at the fantastic Key West aquarium, I too love to go to places like these.

We also went to Ocean World in Ft.Lauderdale: more sharks!

Marine life everywhere, such as on this mural by Wyland on a K-Mart building. Brilliant!

And artistic paintings on cars too, like on this Volvo.

I have no special knowledge of cars, but this one is special I can see that too.
The license plate showed 'Hoodlum', so maybe it was a gangster car a long time ago ?!

A house, cars, a plane... Am sure there is a boat somewhere too..

I looked for old propellor transports and I had found two DC-3's at Marathon. But a sure place to find these skytrucks, at the time, was in a corner of Miami Int'l Airport (nicknamed 'Corrosion Corner'). This area was later cleared for airport renovation and the operators moved to nearby airports, like Opa Locka.

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Created 10-Aug-2009,
Updated 13-Aug-2009