Day 11 - To the Keys!

Already?

Time flies. 

After the lamesville day yesterday and an evening watching John Boy Walton get married and three back to back episodes of The Middle, today is Keys Day.

I dialled TomTom to take us to the Blue Marlin Motel in Key West and to avoid toll roads. So we left Mizner and headed south on 997. Over thirty miles of dead straight 55mph road. Boring. The main section between US41 and US1 seems to be Latino garden centre heaven. Miles and miles of nurseries.

I used $25 of the timeshare visa on fuel. The Mustang seems happy on 87 Regular unleaded.

And then we were on the Overseas Highway. In places you cannot imagine the view, made photographically impossible by the three foot high concrete side walls to the road, but is almost fantastic.

I was  looking for the place I stopped in 1991 on the borrowed Kawasaki. I didn't see anything remotely like the dirt/sand pull off after one of the bridges.

We pulled off at the Dolphin Research Centre on Marathon Key.

It's $23 each to get in. But we worth it to see the work they do with dolphins and the rescue and breeding program.

As well as the dolphins they have some sea lions.

Once things died down we set off for the last leg to Key West, roof down. 

TBC.