Miami Everglades Campground, Miami, FL

June 14, 2014 We are in south Miami, in a "little" suburb called Redland. At a beautiful RV park with a lot of nice people; very friendly, helpful staff and nice folks here. I got my hair cut the other day and even like the results. Arrived here June 12th from Midway campground, drove an amazing 60 miles if that. We decided to drive the Keys yesterday as Bosco is diving today; and it would afford him the opportunity to see where he had to go ahead of time because they wanted him there by 8 AM. We found the shop OK also found the other dive shop he wanted to dive with and got him all set up with a dive Sunday also. The Dive shops were both in Key Largo, at the start of the Keys, so we had the other 100 miles to go. Bridges, boats, shops, water and people everywhere and this is the off season here. I guess the boats etc remain but I'm guessing that we saw about half the number of people that they have in high season. Thank heaven we came in the summer. Beautiful day, temps in high 80's- low 90's, breeze and about 110% humidity. We meandered our way to Key West, stopping at Hog Heaven to have lunch. It is a bar & restaurant with a boat dock on the water. Food was great and the view worth the trip.
 To the left is the picture I took from our table, looking out at the boat dock. The pier goes out to the right and another one on the left out of the picture. Bosco and I walked out the one on the left of this picture and there was a patch of sand and a great view. See the two pictures below.
 We drove all the way to Key West which is a large Key and very busy, lots of tourist traffic, construction both road and building. We walked Duval street, looked at shops and Galleries, and melted in the heat. Holly stayed home and we had a dog walker to let her out while we were gone; she was cool.
Bosco had to get up early this morning so we set our sights on our trailer home left Key West. The drive home was not as long; less traffic, less gawking, and stops but the darn truck quit on us at the only Dairy Queen we found along the way; just pulled in and parked soooo...we HAD to stop and cool off. You guessed it, nothing wrong, truck was ready to roll as soon as we finished our Blizzards.  We got back to the trailer about 9:40 PM tired and happy.

I've found an orange tree that I first found when we took a boat trip through the mangrove islands that they call the 10 Thousand Islands. This tree wasn't on the islands; they are covered with mangroves, but we found it in Everglade City and in Chokoloskee. Key West also has a lot of them. The tree starts out looking green and as the orange flowers begin they consume all the green and in full flower they are completely orange. Bosco couldn't see it until I told him that the tree, the first one I saw, was completely orange! Now he can pick them out. They can be very tall, and the foliage spreads out in an umbrella shape. I can't see that I got a full picture of one, just these two shots of the flowers.