We did a quick visit to Key West, Florida.

Lots of golf carts on the roads:

And tour trams:

And bikes:

Also lots of free-range chickens (mostly roosters):

We visited the Florida Keys Eco-Discovery Center and Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park, which will be featured in subsequent blog posts. But we also stopped by the beach in the state park for lunch, which I’ll include here.

This beach is one of the southernmost points in the continental US. Quite a nice and popular beach, too:

Direction sign on the beach:

We grabbed some lunch at the cafe on the beach:

Another rooster:

We had considered visiting the Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum and other touristy places, but had enough of walking around, so drove by them instead.

Houses with nice Caribbean paint jobs:

The aforementioned Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum, with a bit of a line outside:

Why did the chickens cross the road? No, really, why?

The famous Southernmost point buoy, which as mentioned isn’t actually southernmost, but is a popular spot for selfies, with a long line of people waiting their turn:

Really not our kind of town; way too crowded.