Bahia Honda Key State Park

After hearing that Bahia Honda Key is a reservation area with a beautiful beach and camping facilities Sarah and I had to go see for ourselves.  Bahia Honda means "Deep Bay" in Spanish, the channel on the West of the island one of the deepest in the Florida Keys.

Bahia Honda Key, situated on the South side of the Seven-Mile Bridge at Mile Marker 37, is a small island, home of the 524-acre State Park.  Henry Flagler's old Bahia Honda bridge, build in 1937 still stands as a look-out area, but is no longer in use.

The scenic beach was voted as No. 1 on Tripadvisor and over the years as the most beautiful in Florida by various prestigious travel magazines.  Marine life is plentiful and snorkeling just offshore, I saw quite a bit, including baracudas (not so nice), a stingray, parrot fish etc.

It's close to Marathon to the North (grrrreat fresh seafood restaurants) and Key West to the South.  The camping sites look out over the ocean to the East and we are planning to go try them out again later with friends - before Summer and the mosquitoes come though!

A Demo in Archery

We attended a delightful mini South African BBQ on Saturday in Fort
Lauderdale. Johan showed up with his hobby - a new high-tech bow. He promptly continued to give us a demonstration in the accuracy and effectiveness of this impressive weapon.

High quality design of the new modern carbon and hybrid carbon-fibre/alloy arrows and the computerized sights gives incredible accuracy, as Johan showed - he hit a target area the size of a CD 5x in a row from a distance of approx 20 feet.

Sarah's Pennies for Peace Drive

My wife's just awesome. An unbiased opinion, naturally.

At the start of this semester Sarah initiated two charity drives at her school to raise money and awareness among her elementary school kids for selected causes. This fits in well with her graduate studies, and her dream - being involved in international relief work and grassroots development and education.
Here (pic) she is changing the bottles of pennies gathered by her students into money. We were standing at this change machine in Winn-Dixie from the better half of three hours! In her FREE time, because she's a teacher...

Pennies for Peace is a project of the non-profit Central Asia Institute (CAI). The organization focusses on community-based education, especially for young girls.
Pennies for Peace teaches children the rewards of sharing and working together to bring hope and educational opportunities to children in Pakistan and Afghanistan. A penny in the United States is virtually worthless, but in Pakistan and Afghanistan a penny buys a pencil and opens the door to literacy.
The penny, 1% of a dollar, is symbolic of the '1% of Gross Domestic Product' goal set by the United Nations. The goal was for wealthy countries to give foreign aid to impoverished nations each year.

Business Meeting This Morning in S-Beach

Although it's real character building getting up at 5:30 on Wednesday
mornings - these meetings are energizing and a great source for
business referrals.