best day trips from Key West? Land or water!
 

What are your favorite day trips from Key West? I love Key West but thought it would be fun to see what everybody likes to do other than laying by the pool, eating out and happy hours.Trips by land or water both. Thanks for the info

I enjoy the walking tour through Old Town. The houses are beautiful.

Loved the seaplane to Dry Tortugas NP!!

I did the Ultralite once and it was unbelieveable! Simply beautiful.

Snorkeling off of Looe Key (charters leave from Big Pine Key).

Hands down the Sebago Island T'ing, an "all-day" sail aboard one of the Sebago Cats.

It boards at 9:30 and sets out at 10:00. You get a nice continental breakfast (no coffee) with fruit and small, warm quiches, juice, etc. on the sail out to the reef. If you are lucky they will go to Sand Key which is one of the best places on the reef to snorkel. You have up to an hour in the water there. Then, as they sail to one of the small mangrove islands, you get lunch and they open up the bar. At the island they take two groups, one at a time, to kayak around the island for a tour and description of the flora and fauna. (if you go, go on the first kayak trip). When everyone is back, they serve more fruit and make sangria for the sail back. Once they even had the Sebago cannonball contest and awarded the winners a bottle of chamapinge, but they haven't been doing this lately. You get back at 4:00 and they encourage you to take a roadie.

It's IMO the best deal at $65.00 / + tax. It's safest to pre-book. I go every time I'm in Key West.

Next is the Danger Charters.

Pjk

Thanks everybody. Is there any place worth renting a car and driving to within a hour or so?
PJK - what is a roadie?

Its worth it to see Bahia Honda State Park. Its about 35-45 minutes from Key West. While you are there, search out No Name Pub for pizza. You won't regret it.

Rent a boat and explore on your own.

Only do this if you are an experienced ocean boater. The keys are tricky and shallow and nothing like lake or river boating.

Bahia Honda and Dry Tortugas are excellent day trips.

After you have snorkeled they open up the taps and wine bottles for unlimited drinking. At the end of the day, after you have moored back in Key West, they suggest you take one drink with you...one for the road...a Roadie.

All the years doing this I've never seen anyone get obnoxiously drunk on one of these trips. And technically a roadie is illegal but the law was passed because of homeless people drinking, and not tourists.

have fun.
Pjk

LOL!! Where we are from until a few years ago they had no open container laws and I remember in our barhopping days we always asked for "a go cup" they had them stacked up by the door. Now living here in Seattle I can't image being able to do that.Thank you ! I'm sure we will have a blast.

Take a fishing charter in one of those smaller boats that will also take you sight seeing and even go to the Everglades. This is NOT a deep sea fishing trip, but you catch the same fish. It's amazing. If you ask, you'll see the boats and charters I'm talking about. Seeing the variety of that area from the water is awesome! Since most of the water is pretty shallow, you'll see all kinds of fish and lots of sharks - we even saw a school of hammerhead in water about 4 ft deep. So cool!

Flats fishing. If you do this there are still a few places that advertise...

You Hook 'em, We Cook 'em!

Pjk