We have reached the southernmost point of the United States of America in Key West. The Florida Keys are but a string of little coral islands held together by the overseas highway, which long ago began as a railroad.The railroad was the brain child of Henry Flagler, partner with John Rockefeller in Standard Oil.He believed that Key West would become a major port city and that construction of the Panama Canal would provide enough shipping to pay for his railroad.U...

The universal bizarre weather that we are all experiencing is occurring in Florida too.Fortunately for us though, it is uncommonly hot here for this time of year. We are enjoying temperatures in the 80s with more sunshine than we know what to do with.We drove down the Keys today and spent the afternoon snorkelling in the Atlantic in what felt like hour old bathwater. Yesterday we took a boat to the first ever Underwater National Park and snorkelled around the ree...

Alligators and Ants! Very different in size but under arduous circumstances, rather similar in affect!In a beautiful campground, populated mostly by Quebequois snowbirds, we were parked under a low limbed palm tree.It was a great place for the kids to use their French, but unfortunately, while we were sleeping, an invasion of horrible little sugar ants crawled off the tree and infested our trailer!Alligators and ants on the same day - both creepy and harmless unl...