The Miami River is short, but it is very much a 'working' river. Take a table by the water at Big Fish or Garcia's or one of the other restaurants, and watch the immense freighters maneuver through the narrow river's passages. Container ships bring their dullness to the Port of Miami - the Miami River OTOH gets the interesting Bahamian fishing boats, Trinidadian rustbuckets and brightly painted Haitian coastal cruisers, etc. Occasionally you will see a boat depart with its deck stacked many, many feet high with 'secondhand' bicycles - the Miami rumor mill has it that every bike stolen in Miami ends up here, stacked on a freighter to Haiti or elsewhere in the islands. The second photo shows the mouth of the Miami at Brickell Point, in August 1935.
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