We're staying at Marathon through tomorrow (Wed 2/7) and then we're going to Key Largo. The waves forecast is just OK for tomorrow, but excellent for Thursday. John Pennecamp state park, it turns out, has boat slips we can use. Their mooring balls at the park are in water only 4 ft. deep. It may be hard to get off the boat because we'll have to back in to the dock, but we'll see how it goes.

Today, we went to visit the Crane Point Keys Reserve and Museum. It was really Ho-Hum.
This was a 37 acre point of land purchased by the Florida Keys Land and Seashore Preservation Fund. It's just a walk through unimproved keys land, which means they have roads and trails through otherwise impenetrable jungle. It's not restored to native Keys flora, so it's lots of palms (non-native), mangroves (native), cactus, etc. There is a house, now junky, out on a point in the Gulf with nice views and there is an interesting raised boardwalk through a large mangrove thicket. Can you say BUGS? Somebody had the nice idea to plant flowers in onw area that attract butterflies for a "butterfly garden".......but no butterflies today.
This is a native Gumbo Limbo tree, also called the "Tourist Tree" because of the red and peeling bark reminds the locals of a sunburned tourist.