No, the Manatee mailbox on Atlantic Avenue is NOT the whale sighted….more of that later. February 3rd 2022 dawned with scattered clouds to fracture sunbeams.
Walking south I made the 2+ mile point where, up from the beach on South Atlantic Avenue, is a memorable facade.
Also exotic schefflera, paths to the beach through Sea Grapes.
February is the time for Right Whale sightings on the Florida Atlantic Coast. On the beach, near the blue dot on the following map, were lines of people facing the ocean, some with binoculars and cameras with long lenses.
About 500 feet out, beyond where the wave roll begins, a person sat on a paddle board looking to my right. In the following IPhone videos an occasional black hump, roiling water, a flipper and the signature spout are visible. It is too far for identification, I call it a Right Whale from their reputation for visiting these shores in late January/February.
An hour later, I left the beach at South 4th Street to capture the following local color.
Michael Stephen Wills Photography 
I wish every mailbox were as interestingly ornamented as the one held up by the manatee.
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Agreed — we have an assortment of clever, homemade mailboxes around here.
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Do you think that’s a follow-on effect of all the students and teachers at Cornell?
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There are those effects, that is not one of them. The mailboxes are folk art in the surrounding rural communities. In Ithaca, there is little or nothing of that. For example, a crankshaft becomes the post, a metal worker makes the outline of a buxom woman, there are john deer tractors, etc.
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