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In case the wrong impression has been given, not everyone on this little slice of Skinny Island is lying around just waiting for Happy Hour. There are folks still trying to make a living, with varying degrees of success.  We … Continue reading →

Please let this be it. Eighty degrees, light west wind, nice little swell curling out on the bar. Off island for a few days, we came back today and opened up the house.  Palms and palmettos swaying, cats lazing around, … Continue reading →

The Feral Poet gets around. The following are a few of his travel observations. Virgin River, Last Night in Zion Waiting for the moon to rise over Watchman, good micro-brews chilling in a cheap ice chest, we stroll in amber … Continue reading →

I am listening to a mockingbird, which along with baseball, is the true harbinger of an imminent spring. I have loved and been fascinated by mockingbirds all my life. They are at once lovely and feisty; mysterious and comforting. They … Continue reading →

It’s going to be alright now. Pitchers and catchers reported to their Spring Training camps this week; the others are trickling in; everybody will be full-strength next week.  Chipper Jones is back, taking full cuts and fielding grounders at Disney; … Continue reading →

One of the things we are trying to do here is maintain some sense of the real Florida in a place that cycles wildly from bland, vapid sameness, to theme park mania, to some kind of insipid, Post-Jimmy-Buffet parrot-infused coconut … Continue reading →

Raw, foggy, and wet today, with showers moving up the coast from the south, but no wind, and temps hovering mid-sixties.  Actually pleasant.  Seas very rough.  Even with everything closed up, you could hear the crashing of big surf last … Continue reading →

The hurricanes of ’04 took out so much sand we had no beach to walk, run, or ride on in winter, even at low tide.  Summers were better– the lows are lower in summer– but it really wasn’t near what … Continue reading →

In their infinite wisdom, the editorial board of The Skinny Island Post has elected to give the Sunday page to island resident The Feral Poet, at least for the short term, to do with as he sees fit. This is … Continue reading →