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A satellite view shows the Carysfort Reef Light, just right of center, surrounded by an abundance of coral on a broad reef tract.
OFF KEY LARGO — While thousands of reefs grow in the turquoise waters encompassing the Florida Keys, Carysfort Reef is the single most dangerous tract of coral in the chain.
Posted: Friday, April 06, 2012 12:00 AM EDT
On Jan. 2, 1908, Henry Flagler began construction of the Florida East Coast Railway. It was Flagler’s dream, one he personally financed with $80 million of his own money, to see the coast of Florida connected by train from Jacksonville to Key West.
Posted: Friday, May 11, 2012 12:00 AM EDT
To the uninitiated it looks like a toy. Twelve feet of purple formed plastic, pointed at both ends with a dip in the middle and a hatch both front and rear. But to those who know, that 60-pound piece of plastic is the pure, distilled essence of freedom in the Florida Keys.
Posted: Friday, April 06, 2012 12:10 AM EDT
Guests at Key Largo’s Kona Kai Resort and Gallery, 97802 Overseas Highway, can enjoy complimentary self-guided tours through the property’s new botanic gardens -- one of the first ethnobotanic gardens in the southeast United States.
Posted: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 03:39 PM EDT
More Florida Keys hotels are " going green " these days, spurred on both by the benefits to their bottom line and the warm reception it gets from the guests who travel to our island paradise.
Posted: Friday, April 22, 2011 11:00 AM EDT
The Florida Keys hold a prominent place in a new iPhone application from the Audubon Guide series.
Posted - Saturday, April 24, 2010 02:25 PM EDT
The last tall ship assembled in Key West, the historic Schooner Western Union, has resumed passenger excursions following a two-year, $1 million renovation.
Posted - Tuesday, May 17, 2011 03:36 PM EDT
A bicycle tour of historic Islamorada covers just a three-mile stretch of U.S. 1 but spans centuries of island history and lore.
Posted - Sunday, November 15, 2009 12:18 PM EST
The dockside shack at Robbie's, where visitors pass through to view and feed the hungry tarpon.
As you walk into Robbie’s Marina in Islamorada on a sunny Saturday, you’ll feel like you’ve taken a step back to a simpler Keys time.
Posted - Friday, January 15, 2010 02:30 PM EST
A new water recreation area is open at the Dolphin Research Center, a nonprofit marine mammal research and education facility at mile marker 59 in Marathon.
Posted - Saturday, May 14, 2011 03:31 PM EDT
