Summer in the Florida Keys - Part One

Monday, February 3 - 6 (near Key West)
      Jane has loved being with her sister for the past week.  On Monday morning we left Jay's house in Miami and caravaned down Hwy 1 through / over most of the drivable keys to a KOA Campground on Sugarloaf Key.  It is a very crowded, expensive location, but there are a nice large pool, clean facilities, and electricity (aka air conditioning in the Casita)!

Pop-up, canopy, and Casita together.

    











     The four of us have had a busy time touring the area.  We drove into Key West on Wednesday to walk around and eat lunch at Jimmy Buffet's Margueritaville.  Then we spent some time sitting at the beach at Zachary Taylor State Park. The sun is way too hot for us Califoria folk and the humidity is murder, but the breezes are wonderful.  The temperature ranges between 83 (day) and 78 (night).

Jane found a large metal white heron or egret in a store and had to have it!

     Yesterday we drove to the beautiful Bohia Honda State Park that has beaches on both the Atlantic and Gulf sides.  Oblivious to the many Men-of-War floating in the water, we plunged into the deliciously icy water!  Heaven!  But once we spied the multitude of blue jellies on the beach we could not enter the water again.

     This morning we bid farewell to Bill and Fran.  We then headed to Key West where we will spend the remainder of our vacation.  We are checked into the NAS Key West, Sigsbee Annex, overflow camping area for 16 days.  We now have to "dry camp" now - i.e., no electric outlets for recharging computers or phones, no microwave, no air conditioning!  So check back later to see how we are faring.  We can always head north early if our bodies can't take the heat.