Florida Nightlife

Some descriptions of the nightlife we uncovered in Florida...Siesta Key had but one small street with a few restaurants and bars. The restaurants weren't super, but they weren't bad. As to the nightlife, it was surprising for such a small area how many live music acts they had. I think over the two nights we were there we saw about three different bands, and I think I heard one more in some cluster of bars tucked away behind in the interior of a set of buildings. The one pictured here is SKOB: Siesta Key Oyster Bar and as you can see it's packed for such a small place. There should be a tiny corner cut out at left for a small band.

Miami's South Beach was much livlier as one would expect. Its Latin influence is world renown. Indeed we heard accents from various places in the world, certainly a large European tourist contingent was present. At right is a three man acoustic guitar act we happened upon that evening, the Fox Trio. Flamenco style guitar with father Fox in the middle and the two sons on either side. The mom would come out to dance on stage every so often. Really good guitar skill, we bought a CD and listened to it on the way home.

Finally, Key West of course has a bevy of well known bars, ranging from Sloppy Joe's, to Hog's Breath, to The Green Parrot. That's Sloppy Joe's pictured at right. The girl in the pic might look like Mindy but it was the lady sitting behind us. Mindy and Corey are somewhere out on the dance floor. The band was playing 80s stuff, reminding me of Klaxon's upcoming gig in a couple of weeks. Well, if all of these people were jumping to this band, maybe Klaxon has a chance of filling up the dance floor as well. We'll see. My apologies for the quality of the pics, but well, they reflect the blurriness that sets in after spending a few hours in these places ;)