Thursday, February 15, 2007


Aventura, Fl is almost solid highrise condos. These are on the ICW at our marina. That's a 100 ft. boat at the entrance to our marina docks.
The highrise condos are everywhere, and the golf courses, boulevards and shopping centers are extremely well kept, which is unusual because we're used to seeing nice marinas but low end houses nearby as soon as you get away from the shoreline.
I believe these are strangler fig trees. We see them a lot down here, some of them huge. They look like banyan trees but without the huge arial support roots turned into additional trunks. Strangler figs in the wild start like a vine around a regular tree and then grow up like this to "strangle" the host tree until it is completely gone and nothing remains but a huge strangler fig.

Tomorrow is the first day we'll go to the Miami Boat Show.

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