Dedication To Sponge Divers Tarpon Springs Florida Wood Print

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Sponges are the skeletons of small sea creatures brought up by hand from the ocean bottom. In the late 1800s, spongers working the Florida Straights and Gulf of Mexico came from Cuba, The Bahamas or Key West. Using small boats, one man rowed while another man looked into the water with a glass-bottomed bucket. When a sponge was spotted he'd hook it with a long pole.
John K. Cheney built a warehouse in Tarpon Springs to handle sponges bound for New York then hired Greek divers and a buyer, John Cocoris. A brass plaque at the Sponge Exchange on Dodecanese Boulevard honors Cocoris, who came from Leonidion, Greece, as the founder of the sponging industry in Tarpon Springs.

Jay Milo born in New Jersey on January 2, moved to Canarsie, Brooklyn, as a small child, moved to San Francisco in 1948 and lives in Palm Desert since 1998. He is a widower. I love this area because it gives me wonderful access to natures beautiful creatures and flowers. In my early travel years I took many pictures with a Canon Camera. I received my Nikon Camera for one of my birthdays and have been taking much better pictures since then. We have a wonderful group of Hummingbirds and Doves, that come and feed everyday during their season here in California and I make a couple of batches of food a day in 3 feeders for them. They have become accustomed to me wondering around with my camera, and sometimes pose for me , which you will...