SoBe to the Keys

We were a little slower waking up this morning after last nights festivities. As the sun was out we checked out the beach before breakfast. That's the Atlantic Ocean in the pics, a whole different ocean!!



Back to the hotel to pack, check out and retrieve Sally from Valet Parking ($20, thank you!). We headed south on US 1 towards our next stop, Key West, the most southerly point of the continental US. Our route took us through downtown Miami which looked like one giant construction site. Everywhere you looked there were new apartment buildings (condos) being built. There would have to of have been in excess of 50 in various states of construction.

Leaving the mainland, first stop was Key Largo (yes that one). Roughly 100 miles and 42 bridges (including a seven mile bridge!) later we arrived in Key West, the southernmost settlement in the continental US. The old town has beautifully restored 19th Century wooden buildings, most now valued in the millions (in the 1970's you could have picked one up for $1).



As Key West is quite compact we went for a walk around town, encountering some of the 2000 feral chickens, before heading back to the hotel to freshen up for the nightly sunset celebrations, the sunsets here are supposed to be special.