43 Bridges to the Florida Keys

Product Description

Your official guide to the fabulous Florida Keys. From the time of Ponce De Leon and over the 500 hundred years since he stepped on solid ground in the Florida Keys, visitors have come first in expeditions and exploration of a wild, natural group of islands totally dependent on natures blue print of the ebb and flow of tides and hurricanes. In the beginning, it was coconuts and mangroves that caused the ultimate firmament of the Florida Keys. Down through thousands of years, hundreds of varieties of fish, amphibians, mammals and reptiles were the original residents, as well as billions of mosquitos, that for hundreds of years kept people at bay. The evolution of the Keys from Flagler’s railroad times, the pineapples plantations, sponging, turtling and commercial fishing has now led to today’s, mostly tamed islands. These islands are now strung together for today’s tourism boom, by 43 bridges on the Overseas Highway to the Florida Keys.

About the Author

Writer, Bob T. Epstein was a former President & CEO of Florida Outdoor Writers Association . He has authored 10-books and provided more than 2000 articles to various magazines and newspapers around the USA. Thousands of his photographs have appeared in fishing and travel magazines. A resident of the Florida Keys for more than a quarter century, he had been asked by many of his friends and others to write this book. While working with the Miami Herald as fishing Editor for the Keys, he was asked by Business man, Dick Jacobs to do the original book. Barbara Epstein (his wife) is co-author of this new updated “43-Bridges To The Florida Keys”. This new updated book, now contains historical and other photographic images (the first book offered only drawings and art work images) and brings the reader up to date from historical times to the summer of 2013. Barbara Epstein, Bob’s wife of 46-years contributed editing, writing, image choice and placement and greatly assisted in making this new updated 43-Bridges book a reality.