So far Dry Tortugas National Park has been the hardest to get to. It requires a guide, personal boat or riding the ferry. There’s a limited amount of tickets available for the ferry each day. I didn’t know that i was going to be able to make it. With no ticket in had we walked over from our hotel to hopefully take a no shows spot….there were 5 spots that opened up that day and I was able to grab one of those slots. It’s a 4 hour one way trip from Key West to ride the 70 miles to Ft. Jefferson, which is the main island that’s accessible for the park. It’s an old civil war fort in the MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN. The park spans around 100sq miles that’s mostly water with only 7 small islands. It protects the marine life that lives at the tip of the continent.

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