Daytona!

Spent Monday night with Lesley and Jim, they took us down to the beach - where else? - to dinner at a restaurant on the pier! Took a photo of how wide the beach is at the moment - complete with designated traffic lanes for people who drive onto the beach!

Ate yummy seafood for dinner, whilst feeling the pier moving as the waves were slamming in to it!

Tuesday - we 'hung out' with L & J before leaving in the early afternoon to drive further south... arrived in Fort Lauderdale (4hr drive) at around 7pm (just as it was getting dark). Found a 'value for money' highway motel but then discovered it had no free internet... :-(

Left at 4.30am this morning (Wednesday) to drive south to Key West - the very southern most place in the USA! We had very little traffic and took the toll road from Ft L around Miami to Florida City/Homeland (4 x $1 tolls). Miami traffic is notoriously horrific - a place to be avoided at ALL costs. Jim hates going there. Hence the early departure time (no, we weren't that keen!)...

Arrived in Key Largo (1st island) at 6.30 in time for breakfast at Waffle House (mega-Yum!). The sun was only just beginning to rise. Only one 'scary' time - driving through a thunderstorm (yep - another morning one - where am I? The tropics?) where we couldn't see in front of us. The other cars all had their hazard lights on, we followed suit. At least we could keep moving (in the dark) - nowhere safe to pull over either.

Had a rainy morning but a lovely afternoon! Having a little recovery time...

Will be here tomorrow to do the touristy 'stuff'! Hopefully will have better photo opportunities with the sun shining and not all this rain....