Blogs from Key West, Keys, Florida, United States, North America - page 14

Today started out very early...as in 6 a.m. We decided that we would do a half day fishing charter, because Josh was itching to go fishing. We made plans with Mr. Z and headed out around 6:45 a.m. Josh was so excited, he could hardly get to sleep last night. We caught 15 dolphin! Most were fairly small, but they were definitely biting. After a while, we decided that we would only keep a few of the fish, because our freezer on the boat just isn't that big! It was defniitely one of the most exciting fishing trips we have been on, as there was almost constant activity. We would highly recommend Mr. Z and his mate, Steve. Our friends and neighbors the Arbisi Family are headed in tonight to join us for the last few ... read more

Today started out as lazily as the rest of our trip. After our clean laundry arrived (that's right, I'm on vacation and I sent our laundry out to fluff and fold where they pick up, wash, fold and deliver all your clean clothes), we hit Harpoon Harry's for breakfast. After breakfast, we loaded up the dingy, piled on the sunscreen and headed out to sea for a cruise. We were in search of a snorkeling spot and/or a sandbar to hang out. We found a bunch of patch reef right off one of the islands just outside the Key West channel. We snorkeled and hung out for a while. While snorkeling, Josh found a really cool shell that looked a lot like a conch shell. It appeared to be empty, so he put it in his ... read more

Today we woke up early and enjoyed the complimentary continental breakfast that came with teh cost of teh hotel room. We were going to go snorkling but the 10 minutes of rain at 9am scared us into cancelling our trip. In the end, however it was all worth it since Summer and Dave were not going to come with us because Summer does not do well on boats. This way we were able to spend the day with them. We started out the door without a particular direction and ended up renting bikes for 7$ for the whole day. We hopped on and headed away from Duval street and wandered into areas we had never seen before. The Aides Memorial Park has a long pier going out into the middle of the Atlantic ocean , which ... read more

May 31st, 2008 This weekend we decided to take a trip to Key West with our friends Summer and Dave to get away from the crazy, dis-attached life of Miami/Ft. Lauderdale living. On the trip down we stopped at our trust restaurant just before the 7-mile bridge and enjoyed a pitcher of Key West ale and some freshly caught sea food. We arrived in Key West at around 3:30pm and checked into the Best Westen just 2 blocks from Duval street and 1.2 miles from Mallory square. The hotel was immaculately clean and very nicely decorated, not to mention reasonably priced. We didn't waste anytime before hitting Duval street to meander the many tourist-driven boutiques and vendors. Summer and I purchased one of those skirt/dress wrap things. The lady at the store showed us many different ... read more

Qu'il fait bon vivre a Key West! Il fait beau et chaud en permanence, et tout est si relax! La rue principale est bordee de bar ou les gens se regroupent pour prendre un verre et ecouter des groupes live (et il y en a pour tous les gouts, de la country au rock!). Ou on peut choisir de faire un bon diner sur la marina. A moins de preferer regarder le soleil se coucher au-dessus de Sunset Island! Et la journee, que d'activites! Les plages ne sont pas si reputees que ca, donc il vaut mieux s'occuper autrement, ce qui n'est pas difficile. Une demi-journee de plongee, le tour de l'ile en jet ski, et une excursion aux iles Dry Tortugas nous ont bien remplis nos journees. Key West est le point le plus sud ... read more