The Keys

Sunday we drove nearly 4 hours to the Florida Keys, through to Key West. After a really crap on the road breakfast (from Denny's), we hit the road. The keys are really beautiful, although you the 'crocodile crossing' signs we saw made it very daunting to go swimming in the water! Our first stop was on the Islamorada Key, where we stopped to feed the Tarpon. Tarpon are a toothless fish, and the ones we saw were around about a metre long, some even bigger! We bought a bucket of fish to feed them and headed out the wharf.

Ryan fed some of our Tarpon food to the (brown) pelican.

Kristy was a bit of a sook when it came to feeding them, thinking they would eat her hand, but Ryan done much better. The fish leapt out of the water for the food.

Kristy attempting to feed the Tarpon

Ryan feeding the Tarpon fish

We then drove through to Key West. On the way we drove over a bridge that was 7 miles long (over 11km)!

The water at Key West is so blue! It was really nice.

After stopping at a bar for a quick drink, we walked the width of the key (about 2 miles wide), to a beach club for lunch.

We then walked the Southern most point in Continental USA, Earnest Hemingway's old house (a writer), the light house and browsed some shops.

At the Southernmost point in USA - we were closer to Cuba than Miami!

On the way home, we found a really nice stretch of water, so we pulled over for a quick dip to cool down.




By the time we reached the mainland, a massive storm hit - we have never seen so much lightening before in our lives (Florida apparently is famous for having heaps of lightening). The thunder shook our (piece of crap) car and the rain was so heavy we could barely see. We also only had $3 left in cash, and 4 x $1 tolls to go through to get home. We arrived at the last one and told the lady we had no money. She looked at us and said where are you going. We told her, and said we only had 47cents left. She said ok, and let us go through! It was so funny!