After the Cardinals game, we drove to Key Largo. I wish we’d have planned another day here. It was warm and there were more things to do and more ways to relax at the resort than we’d known about. Now we have an idea for a future spring break trip.
The weather was so nice, we spent the evening getting to know the resort and spending some time relaxing outside. Then we found other things to do around the resort in the morning.
There was live music so we found a seat, ordered margaritas, and put ourselves into “island mode.”
I even got my margarita free. Hahahahaha!
The conch (cahnk) shell is an icon of the Keys.
The resort pool was pretty in the sunshine, but more striking and romantic at night.
Island life at its best: relaxing on a warm night in a hammock under the grass roof of a tiki hut beside the water.
Some of the resort property, complete with tiki huts.
Mmmmm! Yet another way to relax while looking out at the water.
Where I would have spent a chunk of time if we’d stayed longer in Key Largo. I wanted to swim out to the raft.
After lunch, it was time to board a glass-bottomed boat to seek out a coral reef in the Atlantic Ocean.
Here we go!
The water is beautiful green, turquoise, and blue.
Because of the type of water here, the coral is earth-toned in color.
We saw several sharks.
We returned through the “bowling alley”–an old, narrow, dredged channel marked by buoys. It’s illegal to dredge in this area of water now because of the coral.
Mangrove roots are so dense that, over a hundred years, they collect enough sediment to form new islands.
We were in John Pennecamp Coral Reef State Park. There were a lot of people enjoying the park waters.