Daily Archives: May 14, 2009
Unrequited Love and Turkey & Dressing…
As I said before, we’re parked at an RV community in Homestead (actually Florida City) FL called Goldcoaster RV Resort with over 400 sites, with most of them having mobile homes on the lots, but they have a lot of sites for rent.
Parked at Goldcoaster RV
GoldCoaster
One of the plants we’ve seen around here is a tree with large bunches of bright orange red flowers.
Royal Poinciana
Royal Poinciana Flowers
We were first told it was a Royal Poinsettia tree, but finally found it was a Royal Poinciana tree. These trees really stand out.
After lunch at Cracker Barrel (Thursday is Turkey & Dressing Day which is a favorite of Jan’s) we headed a few miles north to the Coral Castle.
The history behind the Coral Castle is one of unrequited love. Edward Leedskalnin was jilted by his 16 year old fiance the day before his wedding in Latvia.
Immigrating to American in the early 1920’s, he supposedly built the Coral Castle (then called Rock Gate) in tribute to his “Sweet Sixteen”.
The place was featured on ‘In Search of…” and “That’s Incredible” and there is some controversy how this one man, working only at night, was able to move stones as heavy as 30 tons by himself.
If you want more info, click here for a pretty good article.
Here are some pics.
Coral Castle 1
My Sweet Sixteen (Actually she was 19 when we met)
Coral Castle 3
Coral Castle 4
Coral Castle 5
Coral Castle 6
Tomorrow we head down to the Florida Keys for 5 days.
Stay tuned…
