Key Largo, FL: Ahhh… the Florida Keys. There is no place else quite like the keys. We drove down from Boca, and we just felt happy. Our hotel is a series of cottages, right on the bay. There are bikes paths all along Route 1 here.
Key Largo: this is the view from our cottage. Simple beauty right out the sliding glass door.
Key Largo, FL: almost every evening has an awesome sunset spectacular. This is from the pier at our hotel.
Tavernier, FL: We biked down to see the bird rescue sanctuary. We saw recuperating and/or sheltered pelicans, ibises, cormorants, turkey vultures, owls, hawks, falcons, plus a green amazon parrot, a cockatoo, and even a friendly bluejay.
Key Largo, FL: our Boca friends Billy and Jenn couldn’t resist the keys. They visited us on our first full day here. (it’s less than a 2-hour drive for them). We biked all over with them, including the Island Grill, right on an ocean pier. (Fish tacos, mmm! and live music by local musician Mark Z.).
Key Largo, FL: we laughed as we borrowed the hotel’s paddle boat for a sunset cruise because it’s just like biking on the water. (How do we log these miles?) A nice woman in a kayak offered to take a couple pictures for us.
This is from the opposite point of view, with the setting sun reflected in our faces. Ron and Billy managed to get the hotel rep to admit that there are SWCs here. (salt water crocs… shhhhh!!!! they are worried this info will negatively affect business).
Key Largo, FL: R&R sunset shot
Key Largo, FL: we were biking out of the hotel at the same time as our cottage neighbors Marv and Mary Lou, and they invited us to join them for lunch and a tour around town. We ate right in a marina at the Pilot House restaurant, which has a glass bottom bar. (Marv remembers one time a drunk guy jumped in the water to swim under the bar and he got attacked by a bunch of tarpon and came up all bloody… whoa.)
