Kayaking to Indian Key and the Mangroves

Indian Key - this is a few miles off of A1A at about mm78. Used to be a full town - most of the people were involved in salvage. Also used to have a Navy base here. 

It's now a state park - the dock is for tour boats

It's bigger than it looks from the water and has streets with names

The parade ground or town center - there was a sign saying they didn't know what this big hole was for - my thought is a big outhouse... ;-)

The beach was full of snails and hermit crabs

It was difficult to get a very good picture but this is a rock on the beach that must have had a coral in it at some point? The beach was full of formations like this.

A cistern - this was next to the ruins of a large house that you can't see because the trees have overtaken it.

We rented the Kayaks from Robbies - they have a little shopping area, a bar and a dock. Lots of pelicans hang out here...

Feeding the tarpon off the dock - hard to get a good picture of this but it's a bit intimidating having huge fish come at you while you hold some bait over the dock.

After a quick break we went out the other way towards the mangroves. We paddled for a ways in water that was about two feet deep - you can see the mangroves are trying to overtake the area.

Went through a few tunnels of mangroves.

At first I thought it was a statue...

Nope! His eyes were following us...talk about intimidating.

We decided not to go swimming here...

A very large male iguana - they are very common down here but still fascinate us.