Robbie's Tarpon Dock
Hand-feeding giant tarpon off a Florida Keys dock on a live webcam, pelicans waiting for a miss.
About this view
Robbie's Marina has been feeding tarpon off this dock since the 1970s, after a hooked fish was nursed back to health here and never left. The live webcam looks straight down at the feeding platform: gin-clear water, a queue of people holding buckets of baitfish, and the silver shapes waiting underneath.
Tarpon here run to around two metres and take the bait with a lunge that soaks whoever is holding it. Pelicans have worked the arrangement out completely and stand at the rail for the misses. Behind them the marina bar keeps up its turnover of boat trips, beers and sunburn.
The Keys run on Eastern Time, UTC−5 and UTC−4 in summer. Feeding goes on through the day and peaks from late morning to mid-afternoon, when the tour boats are in. Winter is high season; late summer is hot, quiet, and your best chance of an empty rail.
