Blogs from Key West, Keys, Florida, United States, North America - page 13

We set sail for a wonderful 7 day cruise on Sat. March 7. I wore the cutest outfit, skirt w/ pink shirt and pink jacket and a big white hat!! It was a wonderful day for sailing. Upon take off, we missed the "sailing away" party, which featured lots of kids, characters and....well...lots of people. We opted to go to the back of the ship and watch Port Canaveral disapear from view. And we saw wild dolphies!! Or....dolphines. They were swimming along side the ship, wishing us a bon voyage. Dusk faded into night time and we had the opportunity to go to dinner and meet our wonderful staff and our dinner mates. Brian and Diana, which is funny cause Jay knew Diana from work!! And we met another older couple from Canada (I forgot their ... read more

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Only one rule: One drink at each bar!! On da way make sure you stop at: Mile marker 107.9 Gilbert's - finger food + drinks Mm 77.5 Feed the hungry tarpoon at Robbies (5 min "have to" stop) Mm 102 Fish House restaurant. Fresh local fish yum restaurant got a pay Mm 100 Steam boat The African Queen - Take photo Mm 88 Tiki Bar in Isla Morada. Must stop. Wold famous. Walk around take a couple of photos. Mm 82 Lorelae Bar. Local stop. Not mandatory Mm 50 Seven mile bridge (gulf of Mex to the west and atlantic on the east) 20 more miles to Key West On the way back stop at Alabama Jacks on Card Key Sound Road if still day light Go blow some bubbles!!... read more

Hello I knew it would be fast. Here we are on the 5th day of our holiday already! Our flight on Tuesday went without a hitch. Our room in Ft. Lauderdale was very nice and had a great breakfast. We are traveling in a Black Ford Explorer, so traveling is very comfortable for us all. Wednesday we headed south. Our first stop was at Coopertown, where we boarded an air boat for a 45 min. tour through the river of grass that is the Everglades. Scooter, our guide, was a good ole down south boy. Lives out on an island in the Everglades. Prefers the company of the birds and gators to the human kind. Saw several alligators. It is nesting time so the females are in hiding. Interesting fact, though we all were taught to ... read more

An excellent way to see Key West and also to find out a lot about the history was on the Conch Train Tour. Apparently in 1982 the islanders were getting fed-up with a blockade that was in place to stop smuggling so they declared themselves independent of the United Status and formed the Conch Republic. They even have their own flag, which you see all around the island. This is blue and has a pink conch shell on it and not to be confused with the rainbow flag, which is also prevalent all around the island and is the symbol of the gay community. One of the main industries in the past was called Wrecking and was basically the salvaging of cargo from all the ships the were wrecked around the Keys. There seemed to have ... read more