Key Largo

Jack and I have settled into our little waterfront nest on Key Largo.  It's beautifully warm, breezy, periodically humid, but no complaints here! No sir! Not when we hear how cold it is elsewhere.
We have hung colored lights on our awning, and white lights on our dock. It's almost Christmas!!!

We have our own thatch-roofed dock behind our trailer

And this  little beach is about 10 feet from our trailer, not swimmable, but nice

And we look out on this waterway, where all the spaces have docks. Many of them have Christmas lights on at night, and it looks like a wonderland

We both like beach towns, having both spent some of our youth in Southern California. But the confusing thing here is this: there is no way we have yet discovered to actually get to a beach. There is John Pennekamp State Park a mile or so north of us, which has a couple of sandy beaches. We biked up there yesterday to get the lay of the land. It was pretty and uncrowded, but not terribly swimmable, and it costs $$ to get there. We made various attempts to get to the Gulf side of the Key, but that is all privately owned. Perplexing. We hear it gets better as we go farther south. Hope so.

The bay in front of us. That is  State Park land across the water

But the pool area is nice and comfortable, and the seafood is FANTASTIC! We discovered an outdoor cafe that is right behind the Key Largo Fisheries, so the fish is really fresh (as are the pelicans!). Our neighbors are from Tennessee and come down here for 4 months every year. They catch fresh blue crabs and shrimp from their boat. We are also plagued (kind of a dramatic term, but BOTHERED MIGHTILY) by the  tiny "no-see-ums", which are teensy tiny little black SOB's that bite!! We hate them.

So, call us bored, but we are bored in a lovely spot.

Life is grand!!!