surprising Key Biscayne...... from HA

On Monday, we did Key Biscayne. We were sailing from Miami, not really sure where we were going, and dad saw a little inlet that that looked like it would protect us from the prevailing wind. When we motored into (what we later learned was called) No Name Harbor, we saw signs declaring it as part of Bill Baggs State park (Lord of the Rings anyone??) and there were too many boats moored there already for us to fit. After mooring right outside of the "harbor", we decided to dinghy in. Now one thing that mom and dad never talk about on this blog is how diffucult it is to do things on the boat. Becuase of the lack of abundant storage everything has a particular place, sometimes underneath of another items particular place. So an hour and a half after deciding to go to shore, we finally dinghied away from the boat. The first highlight of my day was that we found bathrooms!!! yay!!! Then we started wandering around the key and came to a sign pointing us in the direction of Lighthouse Beach. We had no idea how far it was but thought we would go down the path a bit and see if we found anything. We were getting ready to turn around when, AVAST!, a lighthouse was spotted in the distance. We had no idea that there was actually a lighthouse. We should really do a little more research before we show up on an island. There were park rangers manning it and a rebuilt light keepers house. There was a lot of important history there that I didn't know I needed to know. Since we didn't even know that there was anything on the key, we didn't have the camera, so here is a pirated picture.