This is Fort Jefferson, located on Garden Key in the Dry Tortuga islands. It’s so unnatural, it almost feels like your mind is playing tricks on you.īut there it is, literally in the middle of the nowhere: a massive, abandoned 19th century fort: You continue on for about two hours, and again, for most of the trip, this is your view:Īnd then, out of nowhere, something appears on the horizon: Before long, all land disappears, and there is nothing but ocean stretching in all directions. From Key West, you board a ferry and set sail into open waters. To understand why the Dry Tortugas National Park is such a special place, I think you have to encounter it as we did. But when the heck were we going to be back again? We decided to risk a bit of sea sickness and hopped on board. The ferry operator told us that rain was 100% guaranteed, and that he’d happily refund our money if we didn’t want to go. Unfortunately, we got some bad news as we arrived at the ferry… On our last day in Key West, we decided to visit Dry Tortugas National Park. Back to the New York stuff next Monday, but I wanted to close my series of road trip posts with two really special places we saw just before we headed home.
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