22 Feb 2020 Key Largo, FL

Having heard of Key Largo in songs and movie, we were excited to go there ourselves. David also researched the most southeastern point in the 48 contiguous states. It was located on the northern portion of Key Largo. The drive from Homestead along US-1 was pretty anticlimactic. Everything is so flat, you really can’t see much. Every once in a while you get a glimpse of the ocean. As we came onto Key Largo, we made a turn north to go find the southeastern most point. After driving 15 miles to the northern portion of Key Largo, we came up to a gate at the entrance to a gated community. When we pulled up to the gate guard, David explained we were trying to get to the southeastern most point in the 48 states. She laughed and told him that it was an exclusive gated community and we could not go in search of the southeastern most point. So we turned around, satisfying ourselves that we had gotten as close at we could, very much like the southwestern most point (its on an Air Force Base in California). Our fifth extreme point. So we proceeded down Key Largo expecting to find a cute downtown area or historic district. What we found was a ten mile long traffic jam due to a ‘Giant Nautical Themed Flea Market” that was being held on the south portion of the Key. After crawling through the traffic, and finding no downtown or historic district, we decided to find the nearest brewery to wait out the traffic before heading back. We briefly considered going to the flea market but there were so many people and the parking was crazy, and since we are not “Nautical” people, we settled for some great beer at Florida Keys Brewing Company. On the way south, we had noticed a restaurant called Snook’s which was located on the gulf side shore of Key Largo. It had good reviews on line, and it look like a good location for a sunset dinner. So we stopped there on the way north and had dinner. The location was excellent, the sunset was beautiful, but the food was not that great. Etta was happy to see us when we got back to the Wanderer.    

Florida Keys Brewing company

Sunset from Snooks