| Page Views: 8,548 Last Visit to Dry Tortugas National Park: June, 2009 | Fort Jefferson Dry Tortugas by Spacemanspiff - last update: Jun 21, 2009 |
Take a Boat or a plane that floats! | Seaplane, Yankee Freedom II and the Fast Cat |
From Key West you have a choice of two ferry boats. Both leave key west at 8 AM and get you back at 5:30 or so. If you have the money take the seaplane for a scenic fast trip out and back. And if you have a sailboat come out and drop the hook for a week or so. |
|  | Many a Cuban refugee has made it ashore at the Dry Tortugas. Here are just three Chugs impounded by the NPS. Chugs are homemade boats with makeshift automotive diesel engines in them. They pack 12 to 16 people into these small barely seaworthy boats. |
| | Loggerhead Lighthouse from the deck of the Schooner Halie & Matthew |
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| Pros: | "Good snorkeling right off the beach" | | Cons: | "Limited Camping area" | | In A Nutshell: | "A great place to relax for a day or more" |
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TheTravelSlut Mon Mar 10, 2008 15:49 UTC
Great photos...I have great memories of my floatplane adventure here a few years ago. Ann, The Travel Slut | Travmad Tue Jul 17, 2007 01:25 UTC
That's a great picture of Jack! |
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