...A great blue heron, after a patient waiting game, nimbly plucked a yellow, pencil-length water snake from otherwise mirror-calm water off Little Palm Island. A non-native iguana peered out from mangroves off Key West near where a couple of red crabs perched on a damp rock. A two-foot nurse shark rippled the water at the National Key Deer Refuge near Big Pine Key.
At the same time, the larger world falls away and time can blur...
http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/01/30/travel/escapes/30keys.html?partner=rss
