{"id":3130,"date":"2016-01-27T01:57:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T01:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/?p=3130"},"modified":"2016-01-26T05:19:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T05:19:50","slug":"key-largo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/?p=3130","title":{"rendered":"Key Largo"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Key<\/a>
Key Largo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

No, not the movie, but John C. Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park on Key Largo. I booked a site for one night on my way down to Key West and then another one on my way back.<\/p>\n

I got there with mere minutes to spare. Twenty minutes later, and I might have missed the rangers to check me in. \u00a0I made my way to my site\u00a0and got set up. In the process, I learned what no see ums are. A woman I met later described them as flying jaws. Really, you don’t see them. You don’t hear them, but you sure do know when they have visited you!<\/p>\n

The Keys are surrounded by mangrove forests. They grow in water. No wonder there are so many bugs!<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The view from my campsite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A variety of plants grow in the forest. I was particularly taken with these pretty leaves.<\/p>\n

\"five<\/a><\/p>\n

I found out later that these are from the sea grape plant.<\/p>\n

I got the electricity hooked up and turned on the air conditioner. Hot and humid! I settled in and went off to dreamland.<\/p>\n

Cora woke me up early. She wanted her breakfast. For some reason, she thought 4:45 was a good time to wake me by rattling the curtains by my head. After I got up and fed her, I decided that I might as well catch a sunrise. It might be the only time I do such an extreme thing.<\/p>\n

Okay, getting up before dawn isn’t all that extreme – for most people. I got dressed and headed over to the water’s edge.<\/p>\n

\"Sunrise<\/a><\/p>\n

Dawn’s first blush is visible in the distance.<\/p>\n

\"Sunrise<\/a><\/p>\n

The water was a perfect mirror for the clouds catching the light.<\/p>\n

\"Egrets...I've<\/a>
Egrets…I’ve had a few…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The birds were looking for their breakfast, too.<\/p>\n

\"Here<\/a>
Here comes the sun…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And the cannons are guarding the beach.<\/p>\n

\"Spanish<\/a>
Spanish cannons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"And<\/a>
And the sun is up!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was time to head back to Flo and get ready for the final push to Key West.<\/p>\n

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No, not the movie, but John C. Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park on Key Largo. I booked a site for one night on my way down to Key West and then another one on my way back. I got there with mere minutes to spare. Twenty minutes later, and I might have missed the rangers … Continue reading Key Largo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[323,322,321,320],"class_list":["post-3130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dawn","tag-egret","tag-john-c-pennekamp-coral-reef-state-park","tag-key-largo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3130"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3617,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions\/3617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}