Key Largo hosts an assortment of festivals and fishing tournaments throughout the year. Dine at one of Key Largo’s bayside restaurants and gaze at a sublime sunset over Florida Bay. Many restaurants will prepare your freshly caught fish, or just order off the menu either way, local chefs know how to create exquisite seafood dishes. Get your first taste of Keys seafood here. The island is also close to Everglades National Park take an ecotour or explore on your own via kayak. Marine and shore birds-including herons, ospreys, pelicans, roseate spoonbills and white ibis-make their home in the forests of the Everglades and thickets of mangrove trees catch migrating hawks and songbirds with your binoculars in the spring and fall. In the waters of Florida Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, you can hook a trophy fish or dinner reel in dolphin, grouper, marlin, redfish, sailfish, snapper, swordfish and tarpon. Diving, snorkeling, sailing, freshwater and saltwater fishing, jet-skiing, parasailing-Key Largo’s world is an outdoor recreation lover’s oyster.įrom sky to sea, the area teems with wildlife. If you prefer to stay dry, experience the reefs and their otherworldly marine life on a glass-bottomed boat tour. A multitude of outfitters, guides and charters are at the ready whenever you are. With an abundance of shipwrecks and living coral reefs begging to be explored several miles away in the clear waters of the Atlantic Ocean, Key Largo’s nickname-the Diving Capital of the World-is well-earned. Named “Cayo Largo,” or Long Key, by Spanish explorers, Key Largo links to the mainland by the first of 42 bridges along the Overseas Highway-the scenic 113-mile section of US 1 between the Florida mainland and Key West-and introduces visitors to the lifestyle of the Keys with its marinas, diving and snorkeling shops, fishing guides and art galleries. Both “Key Largo,” starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, and the 1951 film “The African Queen” with Bogart and Katharine Hepburn were partially filmed here, creating a romantic image of this tropical isle, the first link in the Florida Keys’ chain. Character movies are my favorites, and this one rolls along nicely, as not only Bogey begins cracking their pride with his wit and sharp tongue, but Bacall, and her father(innkeepers), gave em their share of rash judgement and indignities- her father is "old man Potter" from "Wonderful Life"- I gave it 5 stars, for the good character development, and that it's single setting went over well due to timely disruptions, the smooth and disguised reproach of the captives early on, and then, the hostile breakouts that lead to a great climax.Remember, Al Capone was a literary guy, dedicated to commerce and revenue, he hardly ever held a Key LargoThe 1948 film “Key Largo” and Bertie Higgins’ eponymous 1982 hit song might spring to mind when you hear this island’s name. I'm not aiming to discredit the other review when I say, I saw Robinson's role more favorably, as it didn't require any thugging or mugging, just insult and demand- to be respected and glorified- and with holding up the resort for a meeting with the Miami Mob, he was selectively refined and distinguished- in that self acclaimed fashion of a crook- with his vain aha's, yeah mister's, and ya see's, he was proud and in charge- as the only threat was Bogey, who knew to let em be, mostly, that is, until a chance might arise, and of course, a chance where no one would be hurt. Yes, great movie, not for it's action, as this is a character film, with the action marinating as it goes.
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