Trip report: Florida Keys
March 2000
For Spring Break, March 2000, the Dunn clan headed for the Keys.
The focus of this trip was fun in the sun, but I was quite interested in
trying my hand at casting flies for bonefish and other denizens of the
flats.
Our base camp was the Fiesta Key KOA campground, which was quite a nice
place to stay.
We
spent 5 nights there and tried to sample as much of the flavor of the keys
as possible. We spent 2 days snorkeling, a day in Key West and spent
some time in general sloth :-). I spent about a day trying my hand
at bonefishing, but it was really windy and very tough to try and
spot tailing fish, especially the first day I tried. One thing that
was pretty cool, however, was the big shark that cruised by while I was
wading in thigh-deep water off Long Key. I struck out flyfishing,
but hey, it was fun anyway.
We did much better snorkeling! Here's a shot of my wife &
the kids as we got ready to leave from Pennekamp State Park. 
It was still windy, and the visibility wasn't a great as it could have
been, but it was a lot of fun.
The shot above was from our second trip, from Loo Key.
We saw lots of big barracuda!
Some of them were as long as my leg, and that's big! Saw lots of
coral, and even an old cannon on the bottom.
Here below are a couple of shots of some reef fish:
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