The Florida Keys stretch 120 miles into the Gulf of Mexico, so you can't really see the Keys without getting into a boat and heading out. Our 2000 visit to Cayo Hueso included a day trip in a little 18-footer, out to Sand Key Light and American Shoal Light. The banner above is some of that impossible water color, just west of Key West.
More impossible water color as we head farther west toward Sand Key Light. The amazing color is due in large part to the shallow depth, sandy bottom and coral surrounding the Keys.
Sand Key Light. There was a house built into that steel frame, but it burned to a crisp (the reddish bits are where the paint burned off), leaving only the skeleton and a modern cupola. The light marks a dangerously shallow spot (at low tide, it's a sand bar), and the snorkeling here is said to be world-class.
More impossible water color - at Sand Key Light. Photo by awesome bride [Maris].
Fins to the left, fins to the right... You can't go to and from Sand Key without running across a pod of dolphins. 
Approaching one of my Happy Places - American Shoal Lighthouse, off Sugarloaf Key...
If we ever win one of those massive lottery jackpots, we're buying this thing. And living on it. (HEART)
Yeah, I'm King of The World. Yay, me!Next, we take to the sky and find another simply amazing place.
Yeah, I can see why you love it there so much, and why you and Lorel want to go be homeless there if you can't find jobs! Beautiful!
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