Marathon Key Florida

Rambling thoughts and gory details of my wanderings in the Jonny Quest Mobile.

We spent our two-year wedding anniversary in the Florida Keys. We visited Marathon where Rick had spent a summer during his college years. We also stayed a few days in Key West. We loved Key West so much that when we return to the U.S. for a break ...

December 4th through December 14th, 2008 Nice long stay here in Long Key, Florida. Andy reserved us a fabulous site right on the beach! Our entire site was on sand with the tides coming in and going out not more than three feet away! Wonderful ...

... , this drive is hardly the dramatic wonder of nature we've been promised. First up comes the islands lumped together as Marathon Keys, as unlovely and bland as any American stripmall and next comes Bahia Honda State Park, the supposed jewel in the Keys ...

... being in the water no matter what. A few days into our stay we took the bikes down the bike path along the highway towards Marathon Key to find another area of the STate Park on the Bay or Gulf side of the Island. A beautiful, deep cove was sparkling ...

... . When they finally got back everyone cooked up a delicious breakfast of french toast, sausage, bacon, and eggs. We went on a drive to Marathon Key to see some of the island iguanas but it rained on the way and they were nowhere to be found. Instead, we ...

... getting together in the future. Johnnie is a retired Army Colonel who was staying with his wife Carolyn at the Coast Guard Station on Marathon Key. Being an ex-military man he has the right to rent boats from the Coast Guard and he asked us if we wanted ...

... King Mackerel, Redfish, Snook, Tarpon, Wahoo and Yellowtail Snapper. Water sports of all types are available for non-fisher folk. Marathon Key follows, originally named Vaca (cow) by Spanish settles for the many manatee or sea cows found offshore. It was ...

The big chill hit the U.S. so we continued further south to the warmer weather. The resort was homely, friendly and perfect for us. An absolute highlight was visiting the Turtle Rescue Hospital and the next day rescuing two Hawksbill Turtles from the sea ...

As we didn't have far to go today, we packed up at a leisurely pace. Once on the road we stopped off in Marathon to get groceries for our next 3 days of chilling out, before arriving at Long Key S.P. early afternoon. When we asked how bad the mosquitoes ...

... did, but it grows back!!!  Stopped at a few stores on the way back shopping is not the greatest here in Big Pine Key nor Marathon!!!  Well we are going to Key West on Monday there is lots happening here for the weekend.  There is a big art ...

... Keys (Big Pine Key to Key West) are places we have traveled many times, but for some reason the middle Keys (Islamorada through Marathon) were a stretch of islands we just cruised through. We stayed at Hawk's Cay on Duck Key, a place of Jim's choosing, ...