Why not Portsmouth island? | OBX Connection Message Board (2024)

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Date Posted: 8/23/2024 12:06 PM

Why Keep Developing The Outer Banks ?????????????????????? Well Technically it's the Shackelford Banks.

Date Posted: 8/23/2024 12:17 PM

Land substrate.
Portsmouth Island is just sand. Florida Keys are made of limestone. If you have never been to the Keys, you should visit.

Date Posted: 8/23/2024 4:49 PM

My grandparents and great grandparents lived on Florida's mainland. Beautiful, but not like the Keys.

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And if you haven't been to the Keys, do yourself a favor and take the 60 mile boat trip from Key West to the Dry Tortugas. It is fantastic place to visit.

Fort Jefferson is on my bucket list to go to by float plane, when I’m there next April.

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And if you haven't been to the Keys, do yourself a favor and take the 60 mile boat trip from Key West to the Dry Tortugas. It is fantastic place to visit.

Fort Jefferson is on my bucket list to go to by float plane, when I’m there next April.

Took the float plane last year. Absolutely fantastic!

We went in May. Crowds were at a minimum and it wasn’t too hot yet.

Date Posted: 8/27/2024 9:44 AM

I was so disappointed. It looked nothing like I expected. I was shocked at how murky the water looked. The road along the islands looked junky, dilapidated and sad. Broken down cars and boats, abandoned looking businesses. I had promised my family that the journey there was worth the trip. None of us were impressed. Where did I go wrong?

Now, Dry Tortugas! I dream of visiting there. It's on my bucket list for sure!

Date Posted: 8/27/2024 9:45 AM

What months are best to visit the Florida keys? This may be a good idea for my daughter since we missed vacation (she changed jobs)?

Others may have their preferences but, to me, November in So FL is bliss.

Date Posted: 8/27/2024 10:12 AM

The road along the islands looked junky, dilapidated and sad. Broken down cars and boats, abandoned looking businesses.

I have never been to the keys, but your description there sounds like the stretch on Hatteras from Buxton through Frisco. I thought that was kind of the appeal. I dig it.

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And if you haven't been to the Keys, do yourself a favor and take the 60 mile boat trip from Key West to the Dry Tortugas. It is fantastic place to visit.

Fort Jefferson is on my bucket list to go to by float plane, when I’m there next April.

During the late 70s I used to go to the Dry Tortugas two or three times a year. Until it was automated in 1988, the lighthouse on Loggerhead Key had five Coasties permanently stationed there. So we would occasionally fly technicians there to do routine maintenance. It made for a really nice workday for us, because while they were doing their thing, we could do whatever we wanted. And the snorkeling was spectacular.

Date Posted: 8/27/2024 12:44 PM

So, tell me what we did wrong?!?! We have lived in central Florida now for a little over 8 years. I had always wanted to visit the Keys. A few years ago we took a few days and made the trip down. (It is only about 6 hours or so drive from our home to Key West.)

I was so disappointed. It looked nothing like I expected. I was shocked at how murky the water looked. The road along the islands looked junky, dilapidated and sad. Broken down cars and boats, abandoned looking businesses. I had promised my family that the journey there was worth the trip. None of us were impressed. Where did I go wrong?

Now, Dry Tortugas! I dream of visiting there. It's on my bucket list for sure!

The keys are strange, lots of areas were you have a 3 million dollar house right next to a 3K run down looking trailer. Instead the Keys you should visit Bermuda

Date Posted: 8/27/2024 1:44 PM

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Date Posted: 8/27/2024 6:32 PM

I've rented the Last Resort in Islamorada five times since 2009. I became friends with the owners. After Covid, the price for rentals in the Keys soared but there is no better slice of paradise in the Keys than one of these two homes. If you can swing the cost, you won't be sorry!

When I clicked the link, I thought...."That looks like the house from Bloodline." I had to think for a bit because that show was a LONG time ago on Netflix in the early binging days, but as it turns out, Islamadora was the setting for the show. For anyone who watched that, some fun behind the scenes...

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Agreed, ezbuckwheat. You ride 60 miles out in the ocean and out of nowhere up pops a 150 year old brick fort. It's an incredible place to snorkel. You can stand on the brick walkway around the fort and easily gaze ten feet down. it's like looking into a fancy aquarium. Many folks spend the night out there. Stargazing must be incredible.

I’ve seen the fort from the air, flown close around it low and slow, but I never landed or set foot there. It is indeed a fascinating place though. With 16 million bricks just imagine the construction logistics during that period of time.

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Date Posted: 8/28/2024 9:16 PM

Agreed, ezbuckwheat. You ride 60 miles out in the ocean and out of nowhere up pops a 150 year old brick fort. It's an incredible place to snorkel. You can stand on the brick walkway around the fort and easily gaze ten feet down. it's like looking into a fancy aquarium. Many folks spend the night out there. Stargazing must be incredible.

I’ve seen the fort from the air, flown close around it low and slow, but I never landed or set foot there. It is indeed a fascinating place though. With 16 million bricks just imagine the construction logistics during that period of time.

Click to follow link...:~:text=As%20you%20tour%20the%20fort,war%20and%20come%20from%20Maine.

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I just think it's so cool that you were/are a flyer and did all of that!!!!!!

Date Posted: 8/28/2024 10:37 PM