I am thinking about going to Key West Florida for the winter to play in the sun.
Can anybody share their experiences with me or give me some tips..?
iloveyou
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I am thinking about going to Key West Florida for the winter to play in the sun.
Can anybody share their experiences with me or give me some tips..?
iloveyou
Visit Ernest Hemingway's house.. and make sure you get a picture of the "This way to Cuba" Sign at the most southern point of the Key.Quote:
Originally Posted by Garden Knowm
iloveyou
haveagoodtrip
Bob
ive been there 4 times and all i have to say is the place is nice but its like gay people capital of the world...i personally dont really care about that but if ur one that does then i would find another place
thought that was SF? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by biff
I used to live in key west...but I was way too young to remember = )
sorry
lived in FlA for awhile and frequented Key west- not homophobic myself but agree with previous post -gay capital of the world-
don't bend over in public ... :D
go to the bar with the dollar bills
signed by famous people and ask for "goof"
Thanks for all the posts...
And I appreciate all the GAY talk.. LOL... I'll try NOT to make this a trip full of experimentation.. LOL
how about those of you who are straight.. how is the beach scene?
Where did you all stay?
I love FRISBEE
yay frisbee!
lets get high
Do you know kathy knowm? She lives out there. (keywestkathy) Let me know. Def somewhere to visit for your videos.
princess :p
Hi, Knowm!
I found Key West to be very very pretty and interesting and have been there several times. But it's also very overrun with tourists. Masses of folks, everywhere, seeing the sights and milling around. The place is so beautiful that I really wanted to be more alone with it--just really get a chance to explore and see things without every place being so crowded. I don't like crowds, and when I'm in a beautiful natural place like the Keys or the Grand Canyon, I always find myself resenting all the hordes of people. Next time I go down there, I'm going to stay on one of the lesser known Keys and just have more of the place to myself.
The beaches are beautiful. On the south and east side, there's lots of open beach. Again, lots of people, too, on the sand. On the western side where everyone watches the famous Key West sunset, there's mostly commercial development on the waterfront. Restaurants. Bars. Hotels. All full of tourists watching the sunset or talking too loud and not letting anyone be one with nature.
You can find anyplace to stay that's in your price range. Lots of newish chain hotels around the edges, and lots of B&Bs and inns in the central, older part of town. Everyone's very nice. We scoped out our options online. If you stay in the middle of town, you're nicely centrally located. You can pretty much walk anywhere you want, but there are shuttles and rentable scooters and whatever suits you for getting around. (We walked, but you know me and exercise.) The airport is on the northeastern side of the island, if I'm not mistaken, and I recommend staying away from that particular area. Air traffic is constant and noisy over there. It seems like planes were coming in and landing every 45 seconds.
Hope you have fun!
Thanks Princess.. I have been in touch with Cathy.. : )
Hi Bird.. I am going in my RV and bringing a bicycle. I don't mind the crowds so much (makes for good gazing). I do have some concern about where to park my RV. Being that the campgrounds appear to be a few miles out of town. I want to find a local that wants to make some $$$.. and park my beautiful rig in their driveway or vacant lot.. : )
cheers
and thanks for the insight : )
iloveyou
i know where you can park your beautiful rig ...
love.
:thumbsup:
oh yeah??? where?
please tell!!!
iloveyou
WOW YOU'RE FUNNY.Quote:
Originally Posted by the image reaper
You should go to Blue Heaven while you are there. I also enjoyed eating at Turtle Kraals after a long day of diving. Key West is great, you will love it. Let me know if you need more info, I am no expert, but I have been there 3-4 times.
There are much more fun keys than Key West, Key West is too touristy, unless your going for the party. Halloween's fantasy fest is one of the best party's I have ever been too.
Big Pine, Marathon, and Ramrod are very very nice places. If you want to go fishing for cheap the Marathon Lady on the south side of the Vaca Cut Bridge right next to Captain Hook's is awesome and inexpensive. Captain Hook's is also a good place to hitch a ride on a diveboat.
The Tea Table bridge near Islamorada is another good place to fish, caught many a early morning tarpon there. You can also wade the flats near Bahia Honda and rent kayaks there too. Kayaks will be your best friend unless you have the money to rent a boat or take a guided charter.
I fished the florida key's a lot and did just as good as most just using my kayak, feet, and the bridge system. The best are Vaca Cut, Kemp, Shark Channel, Tea Table, and of course 7 mile and channel 2 and 5 bridges. Make sure you buy a tide chart because when fishing the bridges the tide is the most important thing, you want it moving and you wanna know which it is moving so it takes your bait's out instead of under the bridge. There is a fishing shop right off highway 1 on Big Pine Key and the owner is one of the best guys in the islands for fishing advice, he will tell you everything you need to know and hook you up no bullshit, I wish I rememberd the name but it is obvious when your driving by.
Your favorite thing to do will be to visit Robbies on Islamorada. This is the deal sealer for anyone I bring down there that doesn't quite "get it". Cool place, but the highlight of your trip will be feeding the tarpon out back, one of the coolest experiences ever.
My advice, don't stay in one place, the key's are not that big and you can do a lot in just one day. Try to visit all of them because each has it's own vibe, feel, and special attraction.
Cool bars are Square Grouper(A square grouper is a drug shipment because they wrap the drugs in a square and sink them to the bottom, or drop them out in the glades somewhere to be picked up later) on Marathon, Hogs Breathe in Key West, The Fish House at mm102 is authentic as you can get, Lorelei's mm82 and Papa Joe's mm80 are good places to watch the sunset and consume cocktails with some true conch's. Tickle Stick on Grassy Key was also fun.
Just go explore, it's hard to get that lost if you have a map, and there is never anything unexciting to look at or do.
Take a trip on the Yankee Capts. if you don't fish anywhere else this is a trip you must take. It is a 3 day trip to one of the most beautiful untouched places on earth, the dry tortugas. It is a first class operation at waffle house prices, trust me I have done it the past 3 years and never had a bad moment or experience with them.
Check out the forums at www.floridasportsman.com go to the keys general info forum and you can pretty much find out anything you need to know, these are the people that live there or frequent there year round. Great place where I got a lot of good advice before I started to go to the keys on a weekly basis when I lived in South FLA.
http://keynoter.com/keys_history/ for keys historical pictures, I love looking at the old keys pictures before it got developed, I wish I could have lived there back in the day
Sloppy Joe's I almost forgot, great place.
NO hunting no fishing.. no killing animals on this trip..
just poon gazing on the beach..
iloveyou
i've only been to the keywest in england
I heard a rumor that if you go to KW, you need to first get a bunch of NORML apparrell. I just heard it makes things a lot more fun if you know what I mean.
My vote for gay capital of the world would have to be Province Town (sp?), out on end of Cape Cod, Mass. Beautiful place. I say that, not from a homophobic point of view, but because like the mayor, police chief, and a lot of other city officials are gay. The sand dunes out there are awsome. It's just...weird about gay capitals. San Diego is supposed to be a gay hotspot. I guess those hot, sandy, places are a draw for gays. Being a hetero, I don't really get it. Maybe it has something with sand would irritate the pooon-tang so women don't like it? I don't really know, or care really. But as far as poon gazing, Cape Cod is great. I would have to say, there are more Beaver Beachs, there, than anywere. Nude beaches too. But those places are usually private. On labor day, the locals stand on the highway overpasses, and wave good-bye to the all the departing traffic. It's really something to see. Winter is definetely the time to go out there, as it's less crowded, but it's a bit more chilly in the winter than the Keys. And I personally would get a kick out of seeing Hemingway's haunts on the Keys (like Bob said). Have fun out there!
Yes true DAT..Quote:
Originally Posted by qdavid
I was up that way a few summers ago.. lots of gay folks.. lots of straight folks too.. but most importantly there was a great beach scene....
iloveyou
Go see Hemingway's cats! They are so inbred that they have 6 toes!
How do you go to The Fishing Capital of the World and not wet a line? You don't have to kill the fish to catch it, 90% of the fishing I do is catch and release. Only 10% of that is fillet and release.
Snorkel!!!! There is good snorkeling right off highway 1 virtually everywhere in the keys.
The first one is a 520lb jewfish that was released unharmed, the last two are snook that made it about as far as a bowl of wishbone italian with lemon pepper and my weber grill.
Had a great time at...
skink.. bigger picture please.. thank you