Quite the lovely view

only with a camera sadly. only 3 or 4 of the brightest stars were visible to the naked eye

Wow... You proved me wrong too. lol I'll have to tell my mate to play around w/ his camera on the night sky more. Beautiful shot. =^_^=

thank you took about 30 minutes tweaking it in Adobe Lightroom to get most of the stars to pop out.

The best I ever saw was on the ocean off of Bermuda. The ship was doing a blackout drill and even the running lights were extinguished. I was laying on the aft deck looking up into the sky and it felt like it could suck me up physically.

V.

Ive seen some absolutely gorgeous pics of the Milky Way but they were taken in the middle of Death Valley

*cough* There does exist such a place in Florida... I'm a FL native myself and i know of two though both are far out of the way.... one I've been to and the other i know about from when i was in TCAS.

24.727526, -81.443247

Never been there but i hear its about as dark as you can get in florida.

26.973366, -80.287156

Not great but the best place ive seen... Sadly i am told that there is no remaining true light pollution free spot in north america south of Alaska

well, i know an absolutely fantastic spot in eastern Colorado that you could see the Milky Way just about every night with the naked eye. or at least you used to be able to. Everything in Colorado is covered in a haze of pot smoke now and the once beautiful state is now a safe haven for stoners. And sadly it's looking like Florida is following suit

The worst part is that Florida voters voted no on that several times yet they were somehow allowed to keep putting it on the ballet every election. Since when dose democracy mean "if you don't get your way keep voting on it until it go's through". We seriously need some sort of law so that a vote cant be brought back up for several years unless there are some extraordinary circumstances.

Really we could clear out the prisons and even make money for the government easily by simply making any drug offence a large fine which gets higher every offence... cant pay? Instant labor force, you get to work weekends for a social project like road building. Would save the US billions a year and rebuild our infrastructure at the same time.

I like your way of thinking. but unfortunately you'll always have the bureaucrats to throw a wrench in things. Not to mention that i can already hear the SJW's screaming about that being unfair and a new form of slavery