Thanks TV! Off to Key Largo!
 

Good for you. Did you notice they have houses they are selling?

You will notice that when you are ready to buy, homes will be more expensive. :smiley:

I hope you enjoyed your stay!!!

Have fun in Key Largo! Hope you find the bar at Snappers, around mm92. Great mahi reubens. We just got back from Christmas in Islamorada. The Keys are so different from TV. Both are great places to be. Florida is so diverse, and it's nice to have all the different parts of it not too far away.

if you are going to the Keys here's a few hints to sound like a native (no Conch would ever say):

1. Mahi is called Dolphin. It's always been called that. Mahi is a marketing tool to keep tourists from thinking they were eating Flipper.

2. There is no such thing as a Goliath Grouper. It's a Jewfish (not an ethnic slur) just like the creek you have to cross to get to Key Largo.

3. The state park south of Marathon (Bahia Honda) is Bay ya honda. Yes the spanish pronunciation is Ba hee ya but Conch's aren't Spanish. I lived 3 years in the Pa. town DuBois. Pronounced Do Boys by residents, always go with the local pronunciation.

4. Florida Lobsters are Crawfish.

We got here and it is a lot warmer, but it's not TV. At this point we are going to rent. We still own a lake home in Minnesota where my kids are. We recently sold our home in Costa Maya, Mexico, mainly because we couldn't afford to keep up two homes..thanks for the nice replies see ya in November!

Mahi hasn't been called dolphin down there since the '80s, for whatever reason, even in the fish markets.

And if you pronounce Bahia properly--quickly, as the Spanish do--it comes out Bye-ya, not Ba-hia. They would never say Ba-hia. The H is silent, or slurred over quickly.

The Keys and TV are two separate species. Each is very different from the other, and there's no comparing them. We enjoy them both for what they are.

Absolutely!!!