Summerland Key:
White sand beaches and sparkling blue water provide a gorgeous backdrop for a perfect vacation destination. The wide, sandy beach on Summerland is adjacent to Lookout Park, with its sweeping ocean and island views. The park also contains picnic tables and ample parking to make your day at the beach easy and fun. At low tide, you can walk for miles encountering nothing but seabirds and shimmering seashells.
You’ll encounter all sorts of flora and fauna in the Lower Keys, and be sure to watch out for the adorable Key Deer, only 2-1/2 feet tall. One of the most popular activities in the Lower Keys is diving. The clear, clean water and warmth make it perfect for this sport. Nearby Looe Key is known as the most spectacular living reef in North America and has a diverse population of corals.
Mallory Square Key West Sunset Celebration:
Few places in the world offer the sheer brilliance, the majesty, and the peacefulness of the Keys when it’s that special time for the sun to disappear below the horizon.
Sunset in Old Town is a time honored happening when hundreds of people gather on the docks of historic Mallory Square. That’s where you’ll see flame tossing jugglers, a Key West sword swallower, tightrope walkers, an exotic trained bird show and “Golden Elvis” and his sidekick, “Silver Man”
Overlooking of Key West, assorted minstrels and the “Southernmost waters Bagpiper”. Immediately next door, over a Mallory Square hosts the small footbridge, the acts continue where daily Sunset Celebration, some of the most intriguing and locally now in it's 16th year. famous acts, such as Dominique and His Flying House Cats, Speed Bump the Pig and Bounce and OOO La La.
Florida Keys Scuba Diving:
SCUBA diving: For the more adventurous and experienced, SCUBA diving requires certification from an approved facility. These trips are 3 to 4 hours in duration and offer you the choice of a two-tank two-reef dive, a double wreck dive or a combo wreck/reef dive. One of the most popular diving spots off Key West is Sand Key where, in 15 to 25 feet of water, you will see rock fingers, elkhorn and staghorn coral, sea turtles, rays and hundreds of varieties of tropical waters of Key West. fish. At the nearby Western Dry Rocks, you will be able to dive deeper and see the Aquanaut, a tug sunk in 75 feet of water. If you require a full package of equipment, expect to pay around $75 per person or, if you’ll only need tanks and weights, the price goes down to about $60 for the half-day experience.
If you are not PADI certified, you may wish to take the open-water course and get that dive card in 3 to 4 days at one of our world-class dive shops.
Golf:
The Key West Golf Club, home to the only public golf course in the lower and middle Keys, is a unique, challenging, and certainly fun round of golf. Above all, the setting is stunning. The course is filled with palms, mangroves, and other tropical plants. Egrets, herons, pelicans, and many other birds are often enjoying the water hazards. And, believe it or not, tarpon are often seen 'rolling' on the surface of the ponds.
This 18 hole, par-70 course measures over Club 5800 yards from the middle tees (6500 from well worth any golfers the back tees). Each nine holes has one par-time. 5, and two par-3s. Overall, the course plays more challenging than it reads on paper. The course has a lot of wide open drives and big fairways. So golfers are easily lured into using the big stick,
a.k.a. the driver. But lots of water hazards, sand, tight and sometimes long approaches, deep rough, and unforgiving mangrove forests (a black hole: never does the ball kick out), add more than a few extra strokes. Often times, keeping the Big Bertha in the bag will be a good idea. Then again, when else are you going to drive the green on a par 4?
