2016 Grand Tour General Discussion

[Flash9]

The next few photos are of our "something interesting bonus". I hope you find this as interesting as we did. Let me paint the picture, the kids are off doing whatever it is kids do these days with out adult supervision, while Me, my wife and our close friends have been inspecting the local bars of Key West for the proper temperatures of their beers. Me and my wife decide to turn in around midnight, while our friends diligently work their way through more bars, at roughly 2:30 in the morning my son wakes me to tell me there are 24 Cubans here. As you can imagine things were a little fuzzy, and I'm sure I didn't here him correctly. "No dad the Cubans are out side with a bunch of police", ok now he had my attention, I wake my wife and we head out to the third floor balcony of the condo. Sure enough several police and government agencies, a crippled looking boat and twenty some odd Cuban refugees stood across the street on Smathers Beach. The next three pictures are the best we could do, as the police wouldn't have let anyone near the scene. What we have learned is there is a Wet foot/ Dry foot policy, if the refugees step on land they able to stay and become US citizens, if they don't make it to land, they are deported back to Cuba.

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You can see the groove in the sand that the boat made as it was being dragged off the beach. (not sure if this will qualify for the bonus, but again it was the best we could do)

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If you look beyond all the refugees and officers you can see the boat half way up the beach by the trees being winched out.

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Believe it or not that vessel made it 90 miles with twenty three Cuban refugees.