Key Largo is home to some amazing things to do.
Located near our home base was the Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammock Botanical State Park. Once slated to become a condominium development, this park contains one of the largest tracts of West Indian tropical hardwood hammock in the United States. The park is home to 84 protected species of plants and animals, including wild cotton, mahogany mistletoe and the American crocodile.
Today seemed to be 'old movie day' with a stop to see the iconic vessel the African Queen. Made famous in the 1951 movie of the same name starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn, she still remains a timeless classic.The African Queen was built in Lytham, England in 1912 for service in Africa for the East Africa British Railways company. She was used to shuttle cargo, missionaries and hunting parties and now for tours.
Lunch was a picnic at the Caribbean Club, developed and built by auto parts and real estate promoter Carl Graham Fisher in 1938.
Shortly before his death, in what turned out to be his last project, Fisher developed the Caribbean Club on Key Largo as a fishing club for men of modest means, "a poor man's retreat." Eight years after his death, the Caribbean Club became famous as an "on location" filming site for the 1947 film Key Largo starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
Dinner was the best Key Lime Pie EVER.
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