The seasonal cold fronts now arriving in the Keys may bring us many benefits, but they also present a few hazards for the boater and diver. While our hotels fill with migrating tourists, our waters are filled with migrating bait fish, mackerel, kingfish and cobia. This indeed is an exciting time to be on or in the water.

Posted - Friday, January 15, 2010 12:04 PM EST

Residents and visitors alike know that beyond the shore, the Florida Keys offer some of the best diving in the world.

Posted - Friday, January 15, 2010 12:04 PM EST

Motorcyclists see the ride down the Overseas Highway differently than most.

Posted - Friday, January 15, 2010 12:31 PM EST

Just down the beach from our sunny picnic spot at Bahia Honda State Park, a toddler in a pink bathing suit scampered to her parents, carrying a handful of sand that she had scooped from below the gently unfolding surf. Her giggles carried on the wind as she dropped the sand into a vivid blue pail beside her mother’s beach chair, and went back for more.

Posted - Friday, January 15, 2010 12:31 PM EST

A brilliantly colored cockatoo cried out somewhere in the jungly tangle of Nancy Forrester’s Secret Garden and temporarily shattered the quiet of a late-September morning.

Posted - Friday, January 15, 2010 12:31 PM EST

If the Florida Keys were a church, the backcountry would be their sanctuary.

Posted - Friday, January 15, 2010 12:31 PM EST

If you were to go on a search to find hidden treasure, the first place you might look would be on a remote island. With visions of a treasure chest full of glittering gold, you may very likely walk right over a beach full of pearls and not even notice.

Posted - Friday, May 11, 2012 12:00 AM EDT

The Florida Keys are known for three national parks, Dry Tortugas National Park off Key West, and Everglades National Park and the Big Cypress National Reserve on the mainland.

Posted - Friday, January 15, 2010 12:31 PM EST

Any park or refuge is a good place for birding, and we have plenty of both to choose from in the Keys.

Posted - Sunday, September 20, 2009 07:00 AM EDT

The Florida Keys are gifted with a cornucopia of nature’s good bounty, specifically spilling out during the hazy, lazy days of summer. Look to the sea at any given time and you’re bound to be inspired by the flash of life found both above and below it. Let’s start from the bottom and work our way up.

Posted - Sunday, November 15, 2009 01:09 PM EST