The Florida Keys....Part Two...25th/26th March 2016.....

Day 2 of our Florida Keys adventure.....
Our truck at the front of the villa, not the whole building of course....
Fabulous villa, well equipped, very comfortable and perfect location for visiting the Keys...

Miss Myra on the upper floor balcony....
The pretty views from both patios are of the inlet and perfect for early morning coffee or evening drinks....

Our villa is part of the Hawks Cay Resort....
This photo taken from one of the bridges of the inland waterway on the resort...

We spend most of our second day south of Marathon walking along the "Old 7 Mile Road Bridge" now a pedestrian only "road"...

A pretty view from the bridge.....the shallow water is a beautiful azure colour and so clear, we were lucky enough to see  a huge Manta Ray, it had to have been 10/12 ft across, unfortunately I wasn't quick enough with the camera !!!

This area of the Keys is popular for all types of water activities....

End of the road !!!
The missing section was blown up (intentionally) during the making of the film
True Lies (love that film).....

Not just water sports that are popular....

The beginning of the northern end of the Old 7 Mile Bridge.....this section is longer than from the southern end and by now it's getting steamy hot !!!

The green iguanas of Florida are a hot topic with locals, they have made the Keys their home but are not native....they eat endangered  plants as well as the gardeners favourite shrubs, hence many end up as food for crab traps !!
 Being cold blooded reptiles they need to sun themselves several times a day ....the males can grow up to 5 feet in length.....

This one is for Dave Smart.....
A different kind of lunchtime spot, Key's Fisheries & Restaurant in Marathon with a great view from the upper bar across the Gulf of Mexico !!

Key's Fisheries & Restaurant, they were landing the fish while we were there.....very much a locals eating place, always a good recommendation...

Well I had to this somewhen !!!

Quite a misty day but very very hot and just as well there was some cloud cover or we would have burnt up on our second walk of the day along the old road from the northern end....we walked about 5 miles in total....

The old and the new....

The elevated section of the new bridge...

Back to the villa for a freshen up before heading out again for dinner to Castaways Restaurant in Marathon (about half an hour from here and another recommendation)
The perfect meal: the Fisherman's Platter was awesome as was the very large vodka martini.....
We have had a fun, food and fellowship visit to the Keys but tomorrow we must all return home.....

We said our fond farewells to our villa and the Keys and had a good drive back up the US1 to Homestead and then onto the Florida Turnpike where all was well until 2 miles from the Miami Airport exit when everything came to a grinding halt !!!
Luckily we were an hour ahead of schedule to get Myra and Alexia to flight departures as most of that hour spent crawling along the turnpike much like a normal day on the M25 !!
Yorkieman and I decided to take a different route back home to Sebastian....an interesting drive one or two small towns but mainly acres and acres of sugarcane.... with the occasional acreage of orange groves...today it's mainly clear skies and incredibly hot, sorry folks back in UK we know your Easter was wet and cold and then Storm Katie !!!!

Burning off the sugarcane stubble......the drive through the agricultural area certainly made us sneeze but interesting and a change from the coastal route.....

Myra and I were tickled by this sign in a shop in Key West..... I thought it worth posting !!!
Arrived home tired but happy....
We have a few more days here in Sebastian before we head north once again to Jacksonville ready to put our home on wheels back into storage and head back across the pond...
More soon from
The Tired, Hot but Happy Campers.....