Epic East Coast - Day 25

Our first task of the day was a very hot walk to the southern most point of the continental United States, which proudly proclaims that it is only 90 miles to Cuba.  It was a bit over a 30 minute walk along some beaches and nature areas, and it was very hot and muggy.  There was a small line in order to take a picture at the monument and I noticed that the kids were pretty red, despite the bottles of water we brought with us and the shade we tried to walk in, so I took everyone to a nearby sno-cone truck for some flavoured ice.  That cooled us all off and allowed us to walk back to the condo.  We had discussed walking to the more tourist section of Key West, but it would have been another 30 minutes in the heat, and then over an hour back, so we skipped it for now.  We'll drive down some other day.

I forgot to mention it yesterday, but there are a lot of chickens that just wander around Key West.  It is very odd to see them as you walk around - we saw the first one in the parking lot of the grocery store we went to yesterday.  We did learn that they do provide a valuable service - they eat the scorpions.

After lunch at the condo, we ended up spending the afternoon resting while the kids watched TV.  We had an early supper and then we all headed down to the beach for the evening.  The beach beside the condo is very nice with soft white sand to sit in and the water was extremely warm - almost to the point where you do not want to swim.  It also gets deep very slowly, so you can walk out quite far before you need to swim, which doesn't help when you are trying to keep four boys near you in case there is an issue.  The only problem with the beach was the seaweed, but it wasn't any worse than any lake in Saskatchewan.

The boys spent some time building in the sand beside the water and then some more time trying to give Sandra an early heart attack.  Once the sun got close to setting, we headed back to the condo for the night.  Tomorrow we are going to a sea turtle rescue hospital, where Jonathan can see (and feed) some rescued turtles.