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Island tours, cottage tours and home tours ~ this is your spot to enjoy a virtual bluwatergetaway anytime ~~~

Key West Florida

Let’s tour the Florida Keys! Come along on our definitive Florida Keys road trip tour~ Key Largo to Key West and back!  Celebrating the 20 year anniversary of my first real trip to the Keys ~ a memorable trip to Key West years ago, where I did my entry level scuba certification on my birthday. The past 20 years are a love affair with both scuba diving (and many more cert levels) and all the Florida Keys.  A Keys road trip was the perfect way to mark the milestone, and round out the summer with a bang. 

Ten days, 1700 miles and a dozen adventures. A great bluwatergetaway for my 20 years of visiting the Keys ~~~

  • fort jefferson dry tortugas
  • mel fisher maritime museum
  • hemingway house
  • key west local color
  • old town manor key west
  • dolphin research center
  • islamorada local color
  • the turtle hospital
  • bahia honda
  • card sound road
  • florida keys road trip

Islamorada Florida Keys

Best.Keys.Week.Evehhh! This trip to Islamorada was a long time coming, and it turned out to be one of the best weeks I’ve ever had in the Keys. 

Visitors are sometimes confused, because there isn’t an “Islamorada Key” ~ but Islamorada is a group of keys known as the “Village of Islands”.  The village is actually seven different islands or keys ~ four separate livable islands (Plantation Key, Windley Key, Upper Matecumbe, and Lower Matecumbe) ~ two islands that are part of the Florida State Park system (Indian Key and Lignum Vitae Key) ~ and one private island (Tea Table Key).

The name Islamorada translates to “purple isles” ~ and once you see the transition from sunset to evening time ocean side, you know why. Its pronunciation has been Anglicized over time to Aisle-a-more-AH-dah. Come along and check it out y’all ~~~

  • Islamorada ~ welcome!
  • Islamorada ~ local color
  • Islamorada ~ Moorings Village
  • Islamorada ~ photo tour
  • Islamorada ~ parting souvenir

Now some of my favorite Caribbean island spots over the years ~~~

  • Bahamas ~ famous swimming pigs
  • Bahamas ~ the Exumas on the Aqua Cat
  • Roatan ~ dolphin fun
  • Belize ~ great blue hole
  • BVI ~ the Baths at Virgin Gorda
  • BVI ~ sailing the Cuan Law

And how about a different tour ~ my perfect beach cottage tour! In my mind I own ocean-front property, and the quintessential beach cottage. Unfortunately, neither of those things are actually true at the moment. My miniature “perfect beach cottage” is the alternative for now ~~~

Here’s the open house ~ click to start the slide show and enjoy!

Want to continue the island vibe? Check out the bluwaterlife journey page for more destinations ~ from coastal islands to Caribbean getaways. We gotta go where it’s warm ~~~

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Headshot 4Hello! I’m Bluwatergal here in blogland ~ Bobbi most everywhere else.Living on dry land, but always headed towards water. Writing about travel adventures, cocktails and fun ~ and making things look good along the way. Everything is better with some sun, rum and a splash of blu! Cheers y’all ~~~

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