Anywhere you go, whether at home or traveling, some days are better than others. Our last day in the Florida Keys, for me, was one of my favorites.
As planned, we went back to Marathon to spend more time at Crane’s Point. This time we were not rushed and walked through small trails seeing trees and plants unseen anywhere else in Florida. We saw several varieties of butterflies and spent as much time as we wanted at the point. In fact, with the clear water, we even saw a nurse shark and some parrot fish.
Palm Trail at Crane’s Point
The Point at Crane’s Point where we saw the nurse shark
Then we went to the Seven Mile Bridge and rode our bikes the 2.2 miles to the down ramp onto Pigeon Key. 
We didn’t go down because you would have to pay another admission fee. You can’t tell this unless you are actually on the bridge, but when they converted the bridge from train travel to auto travel, they used the train rails to create the upright and guard rails on the sides of the bridge.
View of old and new bridge, take note of guard rails (old train tracks)
If you ever drove down to Key West prior to the 1984 opening of the current bridge, this narrow bridge was what you were driving on. People driving down back then always talked about how scary the ride on the bridge was.
Next we went back to our camp site and pulled out two lounge chairs. We put them in the shade at the water’s edge and read and rested before getting ready for a special dinner at a special restaurant.
Since Jim’s birthday was so close to our trip to the Keys, we decided to pick a really nice restaurant here in Key West for his birthday dinner and we found a great one. Just off of Key West is another small island called Sunset Key. On this island, the Weston Hotel has a high-end resort with cottages and a fabulous restaurant called Latitudes on the beach facing the sunset. You must have a reservation because you have to take their ferry to get to the island. It’s also probably the only place in Key West that actually has a dress code.
We had a table outside facing the water which reminded us of our favorite restaurant in St Kitts, The Beach House. We had an excellent dinner including a Caesar salad (me) with white anchovies, Lettuce wedges (Jim) with fresh citrus, homemade lobster and crab meat ravioli (Jim) and Grilled Yellowtail Snapper in lemon butter sauce. Of course, we ended with coffee and Key Lime Pie and Peanut Butter Bread Pudding. Then just as we were finishing our dessert, the clouds moved enough to allow us and all the other patrons to see a spectacular sunset. The only word I could think of to describe our dining experience was magical!
View of sunset from our table at Lattitudes Restaurant
We leave in the morning for a one night stop in Fort Myers and the home on Thursday. We really have no plans to speak of until the Fall and will be enjoying our home all summer.
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