FL19 - It's Monday

Time for our trip to the Keys. Off around 9am for the 122 mile drive to Marathon. I had planned waypoints en route a Theater of the Sea and the Dolphin Research Centre.

Traffic was horrible in TomTom"s "fastest" no tolls route. I75 and some parkway or other.

Did I say no tolls? Despite that being in the route setup we found ourselves on the Don Shula Parkway, a toll road. Hopefully the Sunpass in the window will have been picked up and Dollar will pass on any tolls.

Once we finally got to Homestead and onto US1 we felt about better. A stop at a BK for coffee and we were down to Key Largo and the Keys. We passed the Sea Dell motel and as we were too early we went for lunch.  Barracuda restaurant. Great plate of shrimp and fries.

With it still too early we went back up to Grassy Key and the Dolphin Research Center. Superb demos is dolphins in action. So many more noises than you saw on "Flipper". Older readers may remember the TV serues.

We spent nearly three hours there watching the shows and then just us and a pod of females.

From there. Check-in.