Sea Kayaking the Florida Keys

Trip Snapshot

Enjoy island-hopping on fast-moving sea kayaks through crystal-clear water. Experience white-sand beaches and exploding sunsets. We’ll snorkel reefs, swim with dolphins, and dine on local seafood. We’ll journey from Islamorada to Key West, stopping at Lignumvitae Key, the Dolphin Research Center, and Looe Key. Enjoy a full day in Key West, and discover why Hemingway made this his home. Welcome to Florida’s Tropical Islands. Off the south coast of Florida, nestled comfortably between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico, are hundreds of Keys. Hemingway made these Keys his home for the same reasons we visit them: their serenity, isolation, tropical forests, white sand beaches, crystalline waters, adventure, tropical wildlife, excellent local cuisine, and colorful sunsets. In all your travels you will never see a whole island shut down for half an hour to gather on the docks for no other reason than to toast and applaud the night’s arrival, as you will in Key West. Nowhere else in America will you walk through forests where even the names of the trees seem so magical, gumbo limbo, strangler fig, poisonwood, mastic.