Loggerhead Key - Little Africa
Heres little africa right off of loggerhead key beach! Filled with diverse fish and corals!
Loggerhead Key and Little Africa, Dry Tortugas
Libra's Own Private Island
Libra commandeered her own private island in the Dry Tortugas. This is Loggerhead Key with a lighthouse and beautiful reef on the back side (called Little Africa) for snorkeling. Libra always tries to make a stop in the Dry Tortugas, weather permitting, on the return trip from Key West. We would love to share this experience with you! saillibra.com/join-a-sail/
Dry Tortugas GoPro Snorkeling
Snorkeling at the Windjammer Wreck and the Off Ramp in Dry Tortugas National Park.
Fort Jefferson on Garden Key, Dry Tortugas
Snorkeling on Loggerhead Key in Dry Tortugas National Park
Almost 70 miles (113 km) west of Key West lies the remote Dry Tortugas National Park. The 100-square mile park is mostly open water with seven small islands. Accessible only by boat or seaplane, the park is known the world over as the home of magnificent Fort Jefferson, picturesque blue waters, superlative coral reefs and marine life, and the vast assortment of bird life that frequent the area.
Dry Tortugas National Park - Loggerhead Key in the Dry Tortugas
The continuing journey of Sailing4FNF aboard S/V Argo from Houston TX to Annapolis MD.
Dry Tortugas National Park, Loggerhead Key Florida June 2007
Loggerhead Key Video. Very rare footage filmed on Loggerhead Key in the Dry Tortugas National Park. Video includes a tour around the island. Footage of the grave of Thomas Lehay. Video from outside the various houses and some very rare footage from inside and on top of the Loggerhead Key Lighthouse. The footage from on top of the Loggerhead Key Lighthouse show the damaged and aged condition of the old lighthouse after generations of use and from being hit by many hurricanes and tropical systems.
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Total Run Time: 17:33
Screen Format: 4:3
Video Format: Standard Definition
License Type: Rights Managed
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Loggerhead Island in the Dry Tortugas
Walking around loggerhead island after we kayaked from Ft. Jefferson
Dry Tortugas National Park Underwater Webcam
This live streaming webcam is within the marine protected area of the Dry Tortugas National Park. The camera and feed, provided by Teens4Oceans, serve as outreach for the park's many visitors and the public, and are part of the Teens4Oceans Goliath Grouper Project. At the park, along with vibrant seagrass communities, large sea turtles use the park's protected beaches each summer to bury their clutches of eggs, and the Sooty Tern's only regular U.S. nesting site resides nearby on Bush Key.
Snorkeling Around Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas National Park (RAW)
Snorkeling around Fort Jefferson at Dry Tortugas National Park. This was one of the most rewarding free range snorkeling locations we have had. Take a 2.5hr ferry ride from Key West, Florida or 30min sea plane to get to this isolated island. This video is very minimally edited (basically just removing the shaky unwatchable bits). This was a fairly easy swim for novices, however there are 2 sets of coal pilings nearby that you are able to snorkel around that require more experience. I hope this video helps you in your future vacation planning.
Note: Do not be those people seen at 23:15 standing on the rocks, coral and grass. This stuff take a while to grow and if you destroy it, you ruin it for everyone else.
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Location: 22.5°N 78.8°W ± 10 nm
About 45 mi (70 km) E of Caibarién, Cuba
About 245 mi (395 km) SSE of Miami, Florida
Sustained winds: 135 kn (155 mph; 250 km/h) (1-min mean)
gusting to 165 kn (190 mph; 305 km/h)
Pressure: 930 mbar (hPa; 27.47 inHg)
Movement: WNW at 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h)
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Hurricane Irma is an extremely powerful tropical cyclone that is currently making landfall in Cuba and is threatening the Southeastern United States. It is the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin outside the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, and is tied with the 1935 Labor Day hurricane as the strongest landfalling cyclone on record in the Atlantic basin as well as the strongest Atlantic hurricane since Wilma of 2005 in terms of maximum sustained winds, the most intense in terms of pressure since Dean in 2007, and the first of such intensity to make landfall anywhere in the Atlantic since Felix in 2007. Irma is also the first Category 5 hurricane on record to affect the northern Leeward Islands, and only the second hurricane on record to make landfall in Cuba at such an intensity, with the other being a hurricane in 1924. A typical Cape Verde hurricane,[1][2][3] Irma developed on August 30 near the Cape Verde Islands from a tropical wave that had moved off the west African coast two days prior. It is the ninth named storm, fourth hurricane, and second major hurricane of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season.[4][5][6]
Under favorable conditions, Irma rapidly intensified shortly after formation, becoming a Category 2 hurricane within a mere 24 hours. It became a Category 3 hurricane (and therefore a major hurricane) shortly afterward; however, the intensity fluctuated for the next several days due to a series of eyewall replacement cycles. On September 5, Irma became a Category 5 hurricane, and by early the next day, Irma reached peak intensity with 185 mph (295 km/h) winds and a minimum pressure of 914 mbar (914 hPa; 27.0 inHg). This ties it as the second-strongest Atlantic hurricane nd the Virgin Islands as a Category 5 hurricane
The Florida Keys are a coral cay archipelago located off the southern coast of Florida, forming the southernmost portion of the continental United States. They begin at the southeastern coast of the Florida peninsula, about 15 miles (24 km) south of Miami, and extend in a gentle arc south-southwest and then westward to Key West, the westernmost of the inhabited islands, and on to the uninhabited Dry Tortugas. The islands lie along the Florida Straits, dividing the Atlantic Ocean to the east from the Gulf of Mexico to the northwest, and defining one edge of Florida Bay. At the nearest point, the southern part of Key West is just 90 miles (140 km) from Cuba. The Florida Keys are between about 23.5 and 25.5 degrees North latitude.
More than 95 percent of the land area lies in Monroe County, but a small portion extends northeast into Miami-Dade County, such as Totten Key. The total land area is 137.3 square miles (356 km2). As of the 2010 census the population was 73,090 with an average density of 532.34 per square mile (205.54/km2),[1] although much of the population is concentrated in a few areas of much higher density, such as the city of Key West, which has 32% of the entire population of the Keys. The US Census population estimate for 2014 is 77,136.
The city of Key West is the county seat of Monroe County. The county consists of a section on the mainland which is almost entirely in Everglades National Park, and the Keys islands from Key Largo to the Dry Tortugas.
Lightning Storm on Loggerhead Key July 15, 2016
Dry Tortugas National Park - Northern end of Loggerhead Key
The continuing journey of Sailing4FNF aboard S/V Argo from Houston TX to Annapolis MD.
Dry Tortugas National Park - Checking out the Loggerhead Key Lighthouse
The continuing journey of Sailing4FNF aboard S/V Argo from Houston TX to Annapolis MD.
Dry Tortugas and Loggerhead Key
PIRATE OF TORTUGA 1660 YEAR
Tortuga is a Caribbean island that forms part of Haiti, off the northwest coast of Hispaniola.
Although Tortuga was already known by the native peoples, it was never used as a permanent settlement until European pirates made it into a launching ground for piracy activities. The first Europeans to land on Tortuga were the Spaniards in 1492 during the first voyage of Christopher Columbus into the New World. On December 6, 1492, three Spanish ships entered the Windward Passage which separates Cuba and Haiti. At sunrise, Columbus noticed an island whose contours emerged from the morning mist. Because the shape reminded him of a turtle's shell, he chose the name of Tortuga.
Tortuga was originally settled by a few Spanish colonists. In 1625 French and English settlers arrived on the island of Tortuga after initially planning to settle on the island of Hispaniola. The French and English settlers were attacked in 1629 by the Spanish commanded by Don Fadrique de Toledo, who fortified the island, and expelled the French and English. As most of the Spanish army left for Hispaniola to root out French colonists there, the French returned in 1630 to occupy the fort and expanded the Spanish-built fortifications.
From 1630 onward, the island of Tortuga was divided into French and English colonies, allowing buccaneers to use the island as their main base of operations. In 1633, the first slaves were imported from Africa to aid in the plantations. However, by 1635 the use of slaves had ended. The slaves were said to be out of control on the island, while at the same time there had been continuous disagreements and fighting between French and English colonies.
In 1635 Spain recaptured Tortuga from the British and expelled them. Quickly, Spain conquered the English and French colonies for a second time, only to leave again because the island was too small to be of major importance. This allowed the return of both French and English pirates. In 1638, the Spanish returned for a third time to take the island and rid it of all French and the newly settled Dutch. They occupied the island, but were expelled by the French and Dutch colonists in 1640, at which time the French built Fort de Rocher in a natural harbour; the fort enabled the French to defeat a Spanish invasion force the following year.
By 1640, the buccaneers of Tortuga were calling themselves the Brethren of the Coast. The pirate population was mostly made up of French and Englishmen, along with a small number of Dutchmen. In 1645, in an attempt to bring harmony and control over the island, the acting French governor imported roughly 1,650 prostitutes, hoping to normalize the unruly pirates' lives. In 1654 the Spanish captured the island for the fourth and last time. In 1655 Tortuga was reoccupied by English and French interlopers under Elias Watts, who secured a commission from Col. William Brayne, acting as military Governor on Jamaica, to serve as Governor of Tortuga. In 1660 the English appointed a Frenchman Jeremie Deschamps as Governor who proclaimed the King of France, set up French colours, and defeated several English attempts to reclaim the island.[5] By the year 1670, as the buccaneer era was in decline, many of the pirates—seeking a new source of income—turned to log cutting and wood trading. At this time, however, a Welsh pirate named Henry Morgan started to promote himself and invited the pirates on the island of Tortuga to set sail under him. They were hired by the French as a striking force that allowed France to have a much stronger hold on the Caribbean region. Consequently, the pirates were never really controlled and kept Tortuga as a neutral hideout for pirate booty. In 1680, new Acts of Parliament forbade sailing under foreign flags (in opposition to former practice). This was a major legal blow to the Caribbean pirates. Settlements were finally made in the Treaty of Ratisbon of 1684, signed by the European powers, that put an end to piracy. Most of the pirates after this time were hired out into the Royal services to suppress their former buccaneer allies. The capital of the French Colony of Saint-Domingue was moved from Tortuga to Port-de-Paix on the mainland of Hispaniola in 1676.
A Beautiful Day on Loggerhead Key in Dry Tortugas National Park in the Gateway of the Gulf of Mexico
Even after the establishment of a lighthouse on Garden Key in 1826, wreckers were still making a good living by assisting ships that had run aground on the surrounding nearly eighty-square-mile grouping of reefs, shoals, and islands known as the Dry Tortugas. The wreckers, a term used both for the vessels and the men engaged in the salvage operations, were tightly regulated by the government. To obtain a license, the captains had to be men innocent of any fraud and their ships seaworthy, and properly and sufficiently fitted to assist vessels in distress. An admiralty court was established at Key West, where William Marvin served as judge from 1839 to 1863. It was Judge Marvin's duty to determine an appropriate reward for the wreckers based on the immediate risk to the stranded ship, crew, and passengers, the value of the cargo, the amount of skill required of the wreckers, and the length of the operation.
To curtail the number of ships being lost, Congress appropriated $35,000 on August 18, 1856 for the establishment of a second, more powerful lighthouse in the Dry Tortugas. The new 150-foot tower would possess a first-order Fresnel lens and stand on Loggerhead Key, three miles west of Garden Key and at the western extreme of the islands. Captain Daniel P. Woodbury, who at the time was overseeing the construction of Garden Key's Fort Jefferson, was also put in charge of building the Dry Tortugas Lighthouse. Following Woodbury's plans, the conical brick tower would enclose a spiral staircase consisting of 203 granite blocks that lead upwards to the watch room, on top of which rested the lantern room. Twelve feet below the watch room, the tower's brickwork started to flare out to support an exterior walkway encircling the watch room. The Fresnel lens, supplied by L. Sautter & Company of Paris, France, produced a steady white light and was first illuminated on July 1, 1858.
JS #594 - Key West Lighthouse and Keeper's Quarters Museum
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