KEYS HISTORY: THE SEVEN MILE BRIDGE AND PIGEON KEY
One of the premier passages along the Overseas Highway is crossing the Seven Mile Bridge. The views are spectacular and should be experienced in...
KEY WEST BACK IN THE DAY: THE LURE OF THE LIZARDS
Decades before Key West became an accidental haven for iguanas, the island was populated by another breed of lizard: engaging bright-colored critters of all...
KEYS HISTORY: FAT DEER KEY, COCO PLUM BEACH & VACA CUT
In the Middle Keys, between Curry Hammock State Park and Key Vaca, is Fat Deer Key. Historically, it is a small group of islands.
In...
KEYS HISTORY: ONCE A THIRIVING BARRIER REEF SYSTEM, WINDLEY KEY OFFERS A GLIMPSE OF...
On Windley Key, the highway travels 2.5 miles between its bridges. The island is home to some revealing stories.
However, to get there from the...
KEY WEST BACK IN THE DAY: TALES FROM THE AFTERDECK
Apparently I wasn’t the worst-ever cocktail waitress at the Afterdeck, the ocean’s-edge bar at the legendary Louie’s Backyard, but I was pretty bad. Yet...
KEYS HISTORY: STRUCTURES ON FORMER PINDER PROPERTY BRING SEARCH FOR ANSWERS
Cornelius Pinder was a Key Largo farmer born in the Bahamas circa 1862. At age 12, on June 18, 1874, he became a U.S....
KEY WEST BACK IN THE DAY: THE PUPPY WITH NO SHAME
Somewhere in Key West’s Old Town, there’s an elderly man cursing the soul of Calico Jack.
I don’t mean Calico Jack Rackham, the infamous Caribbean...
KEYS HISTORY: KEY LARGO’S FARMING PAST
It takes 16 miles to drive between Jewfish Creek and Tavernier Creek, the distance the Overseas Highway travels across Key Largo. The largest of...
WHAT’S COOKING, KEY WEST? BAR 1 SALUTES KEY WEST’S NAVY HERITAGE
The U.S. Navy’s impact on Key West dates back more than 200 years — to March 25, 1822, when Navy Lt. Matthew Perry arrived...
KEYS HISTORY: SADDLEBUNCH KEY
The modern Overseas Highway travels over the right-of-way that delivered Henry Flagler’s train to Key West – for the most part. It wasn’t always...
