photo by Lee Smith
Exploring the small island off the coast of Key Largo offers the best time to enjoy oneself with nature
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Mangrove Shoreline – Key Largo, FL
The Florida Keys
Concrete Barge aground off Key Largo
photo by Lee Smith
You see some strange things when you are visiting and not from an area, like this concrete barge that was run aground in shallow water off the coast of Key Largo, Florida. The water clarity is good for a high traffic boat channel – it’s right off the channel. People kayak and snorkel around the barge to find tropical fish, invertebrates and an occasional lobster. It’s about 10ft deep but this barge clearly sticks out of the water.
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Carysfort Reef Lighthouse – Key Largo
Photo by Lee Smith
When you drive a few miles out to sea and find a structure like a lighthouse – I always wonder how the heck they built that thing. It is unmanned, but still functions being the oldest existing screw-pile lighthouse still in service in the United States – located off the coast of Key Largo, Florida
For more information about the Caryfort Reef Lighthouse
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A Lone Mangrove – Key Largo, FL
Photo by Lee Smith
I walked in the shallows around a mangrove covered island off Key largo, Florida and found this lone Mangrove growing away from the island. (Photo taken in 2012)
Sunrise in Key Largo
(yes, this was a sunrise, with extreme dark filters)
Life will find a way – Islamorada
Walking along a path lined with small mangrove trees on the bay in Islamorada, I was amazed of how these mangroves can grow in the most inhospitable conditions. Islamorada, a “Village of Islands,” is an incorporated village in Monroe County, Florida
