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Lone Flip-Flop

Cuban Landing - Mid-November 2022

SUNRISE - Coastal State Road A1A - Keys
Smathers Beach - Key West, Florida U.S.A.
First Light - Autumn 2022 - Nov. 25th, 2022

A week or two before this beautiful morning, a desperate small group of Cubans quietly came ashore during the night looking for democracy and the hope for a better life in The United States. The State hadn't even removed the raft from the jetty yet, right here at Jimmy's Palms. So sad, the desperation. I was emotionally touched and felt their extreme desperation while taking this sad image, right here at my favorite sunrise location in Paradise. I wish them well.

*[left-double-click for a closer-look - Cuban Vessel: "Emanuel"]

*[that looks like a big block '56 Chevy Car Engine right in the
middle of the raft! Can you just imagine how very loud and
unsafe that must have been, with a dozen people sitting on the
50-gallon drums around it, over a 90-mile ocean voyage!?!]

*[in examining the watercraft-vessel closely I noticed that their small propeller is completely gone; damaged, shredded, and non-existent. They either hit the bottom, rocks, or something in the water during their ninety-mile sea voyage. That means that at some point they were drifting in the current of the gulf stream with wooden paddles!]

*[Cubans' hull-sign English-translation: "God Be with Us - Amen"]

*[Update 1/3/23 - This New Year's Eve Weekend, hundreds of Cuban Migrants showed up in dozens of assorted small watercraft on the beaches of un-inhabited islands throughout the Dry Tortugas National Park which stretches (in the water) 70 miles west of Key West and not very far from the coast of Cuba. So much so, that the entire park system was closed down to 'tourists' this weekend as they monitored the influx of desperate Cubans. God Be with Them.]

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Taken in: United States / Florida / Key West (show map)

Taken on: November 25, 2022

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Camera: Canon EOS RP, f/4.5, 1/100 sec, 35mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

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