[at-l] OT - Florida Question.

[atrailhiker at adelphia.net (Marsha)]

LOL !!!!!    EXCELLENT response Greenbriar.

Marsha
Retired Travel Consultant :)

Gary Ticknor wrote:

> Can't help on questions 3 or 4, but here are my daughter's and my 
> likes and dislikes, mainly likes:
>
> Saw Perky's bat tower - anticlimactically.
>
> 7-mile bridge
>
> Mallory Square
>
> Strolling Duvall Street
>
> Cheeseburgers in Paradise at Margaritaville
>
> Key Lime pie.
>
> 3 part excellent Conch Train tour.
>
> Actors and holograms at the Wreckers Historium & Tower.
>
> Feeding time at Key West Aquarium, with hungry stingrays, sharks, 
> sawfish & baracuddas.
>
> Seafood buffet on Duval with stone crabs, conch soup & fritters & a 
> mango daiquiri.
>
> Malory Square watching street performers: escape artist, cat act, 
> break dancing, unicycle juggler, tightrope Brit juggler.
>
> Sunset at Malory Square
>
> Key Lime ice cream!
>
> Southernmost Point buoy.
>
> Great tour at neat Hemmingway House w gardens & polydactyl cats (61 of 
> 'em).
>
> Lunch at Blue Heaven w swing & chickens
>
> Zachary Taylor Park, first fort & then beach w coral rock breakwaters.
>
> Key Line pie.
>
> Boats in Bight area & Harbor Walk
>
> Gypsy chickens in front of Malory Square
>
> Mel Gibson's Treasure House, gold bars, emeralds, silver ingots, cannon
>
> Audubon House w audio tour. Good gardens.
>
> Key Largo-glorious sunset.
>
> John Pennecamp State Park.  Visitors Center had good aquarium, got 
> tickets & snorkeling gear & waited for our boat, the Sea Garden.  Out 
> through mangrove, then 5 miles out to reef.  Reef had brain & fan 
> coral & lots of pretty fish.
>
> Tamarind and Mangrove nature trails - good gumbo limbo trees.
>
> Mango & banana milk shakes at Robert Is Here.
>
> Alligator farm alligator show with brave or foolish guides.
>
> Airboat ride, which was great. Did spins at high speed and we got soaked.
>
> Everglades Coe Visitor Center & old VC with Anhinga & Gumbo Limbo 
> Trails - saw wild alligator
>
> Sunset from sea wall at Sea Cove,
>
> Watching 5' gator dragging off unhappy turtle.
>
> Walking Pinelands NT then Pay-Hay-Okee w overlook.
>
> Mangrove canoe put-ins & trailheads.
>
> Saw bass jump 6' to get dragonflies.
>
> Walking mangrove NT to West Lake.
>
> Flamingo ECO Trail
>
> Robert Is Here: passionfruit & cherry w Key Lime milkshakes.
>
> - Greenbriar
>
> Steve Adams wrote:
>
>> My wife and I are considering taking a short trip to the Florida 
>> Keys, about the last week in February, using our camper.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Some specific questions:  (1) What should we avoid doing;  (2) Where 
>> would you go again, assuming of course you?ve been there before;  (3) 
>> What are the chances of bumping into the Spring Break crowd, and;  
>> (4) Are reservations at campgrounds unnecessary, recommended, or 
>> required?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Steve
>
>
>
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