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Joe’s Stone Crab
For more than 100 years, no visit to Miami has been complete without stopping in at Joe’s Stone Crab.
The restaurant was opened in 1913, by Joe Weiss, who began his Miami Beach career by cooking at Smith’s Casino. Joe’s is the top buyer of Florida stone crab claws, and it plays a significant role in the industry, influencing the wholesale price and financing many crabbers.
Even though stone crabs are their most famous dish now, fish was served, rather than crabs, when the restaurant first opened.
Joe’s Stone Crab is often visited by politicians, actors, and athletes. The restaurant is reputedly referenced in Ian Fleming’s novel “Goldfinger” as “Bill’s on the Beach” in which James Bond ate the best meal he had ever eaten in his life.
There are two sections to Joe’s – the Take Away section, although you can eat in too, and the
main restaurant that offers a lunch and dinner menu.
Joe’s Take Away, is the best of both worlds. The Take Away is casual dining serving three meals a day, 7 days a week with a coffee bar and private room, JoAnns, for special occasions.
There’s a selection of breakfasts and speciality dishes available starting from 7:30am and yes Stone Crab is available for breakfast if you wish.
They have seasonal opening hours that coincide with the Stone Crabbing season (Oct 15 to May 15). When the season is over, Joe’s Take Away closes and the main restaurant only offers a reduced dinner menu available in the evening.
They also offer the famous authentic Key Lime Pie. You can buy them by the slice or alternatively take a whole pie away. This is a great option as you can freeze it until you need a piece (if it lasts that long!).
Interesting Facts about the Florida Stone Crab
The Florida Stone Crab is a delicacy known around the world. Its sweet taste and perfect texture, however, means its popularity has spawned a number of impersonators, including Pacific Rock Crab, Baja Stone Crab, Red Rock Crab and Japanese Crab (to name a few).
Because these non-Florida Stone Crabs don’t have the benefit of the warm tropical waters of the Keys and Gulf, they are stringier in texture and much gamier in taste. That’s why at Joe’s Stone Crab they only serve the real thing.
Florida Stone Crabs are found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts but are commercially harvested almost entirely in Florida. In the wild, adult Stone Crabs are easily recognized by their oval body and two large claws.
The adult body of the Stone Crab is dark brownish red, more or less mottled and spotted with dusky gray. An interesting feature about the Stone Crab is the mark on the inside of the large claw that resembles a thumb print.
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Wisdom Wednesday – Yesterday and Today
Your favorite time of the week is here again. You never know, you may be inspired to do something different…yes, its Wisdom Wednesday, where the posts speak for themselves.
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Social Media Links
After successfully adding a logo to my header, I’ve decided to continue tweaking the Travelling Banana site. Today I added a few Social Media links. You can find them just under the Travelling Banana logo or if you’re visiting on a mobile device, drop down the menu (the three lines often referred to as the hamburger) and you’ll see them pop up.
In case you’ve been living on Pluto or you’ve actually been busy doing more important things, you may not know what some of those hieroglyphics mean.
Here’s a quick guide on the Social Media icons I have added to my site.
Tumblr – pronounced “tumbler” is a microblogging platform and social networking website. Often contains a mixture of art, design, photos and videos. It has been around since Feb 2007
Twitter – Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called “tweets”. It’s been around since Mar 2006.
Flickr – pronounced “flicker” is an image and video hosting website owned by Yahoo. It’s a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs since Feb 2004.
Pinterest – Pinterest is a visual discovery tool that you can use to find ideas for all your projects and interests. It has been around since Mar 2010.
Google+ – pronounced and sometimes written as “Google Plus” is an interest-based social network that is owned and operated by Google Inc. It has been around since Jun 2011.
Have you noticed how a lot of these social media sites launched in February or March apart from Google – I wonder why?
This is only a small selection of a vast amount of social media sites that are popping up all over the place.
Here are a few of my doodles that you can find on Tumblr
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Travelling Banana Logo
I really love using the Twenty Fifteen theme for my site. I’ve tried lots of different ones. Believe me there are loads out there to try and you can spend a lot of time playing around with just the theme before you even do any writing on your site. The only thing that was frustrating and stopping me really loving this theme was the Header.
The header is customizable in Twenty Fifteen but it doesn’t allow you to add a logo very easily, so I’ve had to make do with one of my images as the background header and then make do with the boring font for the Travelling Banana site title – not very welcoming or exciting to say the least.
So I enrolled on another Blogging University Course run by WordPress to help me get into the nitty gritty of my site and hopefully come out the other side with a better looking site and a better experience for you.
So our current assignment is to look at customizing our Headers – fantastic…exactly what I have been looking for. In the forum I explained my problem and one of the lovely Happiness Engineers, Kathryn P., responded and gave me lots of useful advice. She pointed me in the direction of the Twenty Fifteen forum on WordPress.Org and this is where I discovered my answer. Someone was having a similar problem to myself and Tahoe Rock answered the question and gave a solution to the problem.
I followed Tahoe’s instructions, and with the help of my husband to make sure I didn’t put the code in the wrong place and mess it up entirely, I finally have a new header image/logo proudly sitting at the top of this site.
I may play around with it a little more until I’m happy with the size, dimensions etc but I’m really happy that I have some kind of branding instead of the lonely boring text I had before.
It’s still not an easy thing to do, and you do have to know where the code goes, but at least it was a solution and one I can play around with.
Thanks everyone! 🙂
Do you think the Travelling Banana logo should be larger? Let me know your thoughts below.
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Wisdom Wednesday – Make Room
It’s already that day in the week for another Wisdom Wednesday – where the posts speak for themselves.
Today’s post comes with thanks to Marion S.
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Wisdom Wednesday – Hallowe’en
Welcome to a special Hallowe’en themed Wisdom Wednesday where the posts spookily speak for themselves.
Hope you have a fun time.
If you are reading this…you are blissfully unaware of what is creeping up behind you. Boo!
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Coral Castle Museum
If you are ever traveling down this way, you have to make time to visit the Coral Castle Museum.
Coral Castle was built by one man, Edward Leedskalnin. From 1923 to 1951, Ed single-handedly and secretly carved over 1,100 tons of coral rock, and his unknown process has created one of the world’s most mysterious accomplishments.
The castle was originally located in Florida City in the 1920’s but was moved single-handedly to it’s present location by Ed in the 1930’s.
It was a fascinating tour. When you arrive you are greeted by one of the tour guides who will direct you to join one of the on-going tours – don’t worry you won’t miss anything as it’s a circular tour and you can join and re-join as many times as you wish if you missed any part of it.
Follow your welcome guide who will escort you to the entrance and explain how the tour will work.
As you enter you are greeted by one of the many knowledgable tour guides
Ed welcomes you to his home and encourages you to enjoy a tour. He’s looking a little under the weather.
Ed was only 100 pounds and 5 feet tall but as you wander around you will be amazed at how this sleight man could maneuver large heavy and rough coral slabs to construct a selection of beds, tables, walls, his workshop and sleeping quarters.
Ed’s welcoming message – you will be amazed and leave with more questions than answers!
Ed definitely had some interesting ideas – but how he did most of this is still clouded in mystery
Ed carved messages to keep his visitors informed
Admission to Coral Castle used to be a little cheaper back in the day but it’s still worth the entrance price. Check the website for current entrance fee prices.
Some of the features at the Coral Castle include a 9-ton gate that moves with just a touch of a finger, a Polaris telescope pin-pointing precisely where the north star is located and functioning rocking chairs – all made entirely of stone.
There is also the world’s largest and heaviest Valentine. The table is a perfect heart shape and weighs 5000 pounds!
The 9 ton gate is perfectly balanced and moves extremely easily. It is Ed’s amazing engineering skills that continue to baffle experts and visitors.
Ed accomplished this by drilling an eight foot longitudinal hole that precisely aligns with stone’s centre of gravity for perfect balance. The door fits within a quarter of an inch of the walls on either side. The door is so perfectly balanced that it can be easily pushed open using only a finger. How he did this remains a mystery, as even the most advanced electronic analysis equipment we have today would find it difficult to reproduce it.
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Wisdom Wednesday – No Failures
Wisdom Wednesday – where the posts speak for themselves
Today’s Wisdom Wednesday quote is inspired by a comment I read on a blog I follow.
Why not check out Kathie Gregory’s blog at ataleoftwohorses.com
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Wisdom Wednesday – Together
It’s already the middle of the week and time for another Wisdom Wednesday – where the posts speak for themselves
Find out what people call the middle of the week.
