We spent the first 14 days of 2015 in sunny Florida at the Venneri condo in Hollywood and celebrated New Years in style - Jackie and Nathan were missed!
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| Happy 2015! |
The days were filled with lying on the beach, reading, swimming, eating stone crab and drinking margaritas.
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| Beach Time! |
We spent some time exploring the mangrove eco-system right next to the inter-coastal at the Anne Kolb Nature Centre and rented kayaks to get out on the (swamp) water. We saw many different birds, saw some jumping fish (which Marie was convinced would somehow accidentally hit her in the head!) and saw some swirls in the water that may have been a sign of a manatee tail!
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| Kayaking |
After a few days in Hollywood, we packed up the van and headed down to the Florida Keys where we drove across the famous Seven mile bridge to Key West where we spent 2 nights.
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| Seven mile bridge |
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| Seven mile bridge |
It was a really cute town with houses that reminded us of what traditional southern US plantation houses must look like (with some added palm trees). We cycled around town, went to a fort and did some snorkeling. By the way, did you know that Key West is the southern most point in the US and is only 90 miles from Cuba?!
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| Tom enjoying the bike ride! |
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| Southern Most Point of US |
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| Marie snorkeling |
And a lot of Iguanas.
Because we still had not seen any alligators we tried an air boat tour through the Everglades. It was a fun experience to just get through the Everglades but the noise definitely scared any alligators away...Luckily, this park conveniently had a gator show performed by the Florida
Gator Boys (A reality TV show on Animal Planet).
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| Air Boats |
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| Gator Show |
Until next time Florida!
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