I spent the morning doing a little shopping, then after executing an 57-point turn in the incredibly small hotel parking lot (it seriously looked just like this Austin Powers scene), I drove up US 1 and made my way home.
But not before I saw this:
Hello!
What would prompt someone to make an enormous crustacean and plop it in the parking lot of a diner? It's sort of menacing, really. But I couldn't help stopping for a shot. if I could give you an idea of the scale, I could probably stand in the space under it's body.
I actually saw a lot of this type of stuff...not of this size, of course, but during my two days I saw several larger than life fiberglass animals throughout the Keys...from a flamingo to a tiger, these suckers seem to be pretty popular down this way. Hm...a new career?
this is the craziest thing i have seen in a long time! i kinda wanna climb on top and pretend i'm riding it.
ReplyDeleteYeah it's totally fantastic...it's so weird because Florida is a very "kitchy" place...you see this kind of stuff a lot. I was somewhere the other day and didn't have a camera, and there was an ENORMOUS Florida Panther in front of some building. And I mean it was about the side of a single family home. On the east coast, there is a company that has a 2 story Blue Marlin stuffed and mounted in the middle of a fountain. Somewhere in central Florida, there is an enormous Alligator that's like a block long. Kitchy seems to fit well here.
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