Thanks for posting, sounds like an interesting and fun trip. Many years ago when our daughter graduated from college I took her on a father/daughter scuba diving trip/vacation to the Keys before she began her professional working career. We flew to Fort Lauderdale and rented a car and began our journey. We stayed in Marathon for several days as our home base. There was some good diving by boat from Marathon and we found a decent beach (there aren’t many beaches on the Keys) in Marathon named Sombrero beach. The night diving trip we did was especially cool. Marathon also had some outstanding and fun places to eat. The happy hour at the Sunset Grill and Raw Bar was a blast. Everyone got a free drink for the raucous nightly toast at sunset. The sushi at the Castaway Waterfront Restaurant and Sushi Bar was the best we ever had and breakfast at The Stuffed Pig is a must do for both the food and atmosphere. We took a day trip across the seven mile bridge and hit a nice beach in Big Pine then went out to Key West for the afternoon/evening. We found Key West to be interested, but not necessarily our kind of place. Way too crowded, overpriced, and honky tonk. A few hours there was enough for us and we were glad to return to Marathon. The last three days of our trip we stayed in Key Largo. The first two days we did lots of diving and found a couple of good restaurants. The last day we did a swim with the dolphins adventure that was really fun and entertaining. There is lots to do on the Keys including excellent charter boat fishing from Islamorada. One of these years (hopefully soon) my wife and I hope to take an extended road trip there from our Villages home and drive through the Everglades, definitely a bucket list thing.
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