Mel Fisher Maritime Museum – Key Largo Attractions – Florida
This early diving pioneer discovered some great underwater Florida treasure. Travel through time into the world of shipwrecks, you’ll explore underwater artefacts and treasure from the late fifteenth to mid-eighteenth centuries. View hundreds of items rescued from shipwrecks in the deep waters off - many from the European's ' New World' era of exploration. Learn about the early colonization of the Americas and the effect it had on the native inhabitants.
Hemingway Home and Museum – Attractions in Key Largo – Florida
Hemingway owned this house from 1931 until he died in 1961. The house has a pool built in the late thirties and cost $20,000 which was a pricey sum in those days. It was this that prompted him to take a penny and press it into the surrounding patio and pronounce, ‘Here, take the last penny I've got!’ The penny is still there.
Ernest Hemingway was once given a six-toed cat by a ship's captain, and it is said that about sixty of this cats' descendants still live in the museum. It’s well worth going to see the cats alone – they’re all named after celebrities. It’s not everywhere you can read: ‘Ava Gardner is our most unusual cat since she was born without a tail. She moves with a hopping gait resembling a rabbit.’ (is that the cat or Ava Gardner?) Mental note: Remember to see the six ships captain’s toes, pressed into the Ernest Hemmingway.
Everglades Alligator Farm - Key Largo Attractions
A real working alligator farm. Why you would want to farm alligators, we don’t know. Unless you’re a James Bond villain of course, and need an alligator farm to deter busy bodies from nosing round your evil lair. We’re not saying this is anything other than an alligator farm, just keep a look out for lots of armed men running about in boiler suits, and nuclear weapons.
And maybe also make sure you have a portable autogyro (called ‘Little Nellie’) armed with a couple of synchronised forward firing machine guns with you. Best buy one of those locally; it wouldn’t go down well at all if you tried to get it on your flight as hand luggage.