Fish Story

Our International Falls correspondent has returned to his frigid base on the Canadian border to file this report and answer questions about the massive fish he consumed in the Florida Keys.
Wayne writes:
OK...we are back. Seventeen days in shorts, walking Miami Beach and boardwalks and reading and laying in the sun. We capped it off the last four days in the Keys. We stayed in Layton (just north of Marathon).

Our friends from the Falls and Pensacola met us there and celebrated a 60th birthday. Went out to eat at a Cuban restaurant and that is where the Hog Fish comes in.
Hog Fish was the "catch of the day," which apparently is unusual. Four of the six ordered it and mine came and was about twice the size of the others. The white stuff was onion. It was mild and delicious and BIG. I shared. I googled it and it is not an uncommon dish but they cook it whole and the presentation was special.
Did the Duval Street walk at Key West one day but mostly hung out at the place we stayed, The Lime Tree Inn.
Shoveled snow this morning, 8 above. Life was good for a while.