cocktails, island style, stories & beautiful blue water
Disclosure ~ Mermaid Cottages graciously provided this cottage for my stay on Tybee Island. All opinions and photographs are my own. Let’s visit Sea Stars cottage on Tybee Island, Georgia. A wonderful dose of vintage cottage charm and coastal calm, courtesy of Mermaid Cottages. 🙂 Y’all know how much I love a porch with rockers. When I saw this wrap-around porch… Read More
Welcome to Tybee Island, Georgia – also known as Savannah’s beach. 🙂 Part of the string of barrier islands along the coast of Georgia, and about 20 minutes from Savannah, Tybee gets my vote for laid-back coastal charm. We started this year on Tybee, and it was so nice to visit again this month. This time of year it personifies the… Read More
We’re headed home on our Florida Keys road trip. Ten days, 1700 miles and a dozen adventures. 🙂 A great bluwatergetaway for my 20 years of visiting the Keys. One thing I love about the Florida Keys is they’re the tropical islands you can drive to visit! No planes, no passports, just a lot of bridges. I started this series… Read More
Calling all treasure hunters! This week we are visiting the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum in Key West on our Florida Keys road trip series! The 1622 wreck of the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha was discovered by Mel Fisher and his company, Salvors Inc., on July 20, 1985. Gold, emeralds, Spanish silver coins and silver ingots ~ estimated at over $450… Read More
Welcome to the Hemingway House in Key West ~ this week’s stop on our Florida Keys road trip series 🙂 . Originally built in 1851, the house was in disrepair when Ernest & Pauline Hemingway bought it at a tax auction in 1931 and began a major restoration all through the early 1930’s. The house was their home until 1939… Read More
Welcome to Key West, Florida ~ this week’s stop on our Florida Keys road trip series 🙂 . Since we’re visiting the southernmost city in the continental USA, I thought it fitting to start at the Southernmost Point! We did a bunch of things during our Key West visit and I’ve posted several in detail ~ Fort Jefferson, Old Town… Read More
Click here for availability at Old Town Manor and Rose Lane Villas 🙂 Don’t you love it when you get lucky and find the perfect match? I feel that way about Old Town Manor ~ the bed & breakfast we stayed in during the Key West stop on our Florida Keys road trip . I knew what I wanted in Key… Read More
Welcome to the Dolphin Research Center on Grassy Key in the Florida Keys 🙂 ! The Dolphin Research Center on Grassy Key is at MM59 Bayside ~ a short drive from Islamorada or an easy trip from Key West. You can spend a few hours or an entire day, depending on your desires. The DRC grounds are easily navigated on a… Read More
Welcome to Islamorada in the Florida Keys 🙂 . You know I love Islamorada, and we’ve visited here many times before. Here’s some background on the area from previous visits. And here’s the photo tour from our most recent visit on our Florida Keys road trip. I’m just going to let the photos tell the story ~~~ You have to… Read More
