![]() ![]() ![]() Many restaurants will prepare your freshly caught fish, or just order off the menu either way, local chefs know how to create exquisite seafood dishes. Get your first taste of Keys seafood here. The island is also close to Everglades National Park take an ecotour or explore on your own via kayak. Marine and shore birds-including herons, ospreys, pelicans, roseate spoonbills and white ibis-make their home in the forests of the Everglades and thickets of mangrove trees catch migrating hawks and songbirds with your binoculars in the spring and fall. In the waters of Florida Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, you can hook a trophy fish or dinner reel in dolphin, grouper, marlin, redfish, sailfish, snapper, swordfish and tarpon. ![]() Diving, snorkeling, sailing, freshwater and saltwater fishing, jet-skiing, parasailing-Key Largo’s world is an outdoor recreation lover’s oyster.įrom sky to sea, the area teems with wildlife. If you prefer to stay dry, experience the reefs and their otherworldly marine life on a glass-bottomed boat tour. A multitude of outfitters, guides and charters are at the ready whenever you are. With an abundance of shipwrecks and living coral reefs begging to be explored several miles away in the clear waters of the Atlantic Ocean, Key Largo’s nickname-the Diving Capital of the World-is well-earned. Named “Cayo Largo,” or Long Key, by Spanish explorers, Key Largo links to the mainland by the first of 42 bridges along the Overseas Highway-the scenic 113-mile section of US 1 between the Florida mainland and Key West-and introduces visitors to the lifestyle of the Keys with its marinas, diving and snorkeling shops, fishing guides and art galleries. Both “Key Largo,” starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, and the 1951 film “The African Queen” with Bogart and Katharine Hepburn were partially filmed here, creating a romantic image of this tropical isle, the first link in the Florida Keys’ chain. About Key LargoThe 1948 film “Key Largo” and Bertie Higgins’ eponymous 1982 hit song might spring to mind when you hear this island’s name. ![]()
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