We love staying in Marathon. You can stay ocean or bay side. There's a lot
there to keep you busy and you're halfway from the everglades to key west.
The dolphin research center is nice, bahia honda state park is close etc etc
sheree
"Rosalie B." wrote in message
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> Jeff wrote:
>
>>sheree wrote:
>>> it was porky's in marathon. i think we ate at the island fish co too
>>> but i
>>> don't recall the fried key lime pie there. i was on a mission, had to
>>> get my
>>> daily fix. i can make it very well but there's something about key lime
>>> pie
>>> in the keys!
>>> sheree
>>> hey chrissie, here i go, talking about food again!!
>>>
>>> "Kurt Ullman" wrote in message
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>>>> In article ,
>>>> Rosalie B. wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> And I actually had them in Marathon
>>>> Ah yes.. The Island Fish Company
>>>>
>>>>> I've also had fried cheese cake.
>>>> I've had a fried twinkie, so there (g).
>>>> They have an unofficial competition at the Indiana State Fair
>>>> every year to decide who can take a bad thing nutritionally and make
>>>> worse by frying. Thus you get fried twinkies and snickers bars, etc.
>>>
>>Where is Marathon?????
>>
> It is the town on Vaca Key about 50 miles from Key West. It was named
> by the railroad workers who were rushing to finish the railroad to Key
> West while Flagler was still alive. They were working 10 hour days 7
> days a week, and one of them called it 'a marathon'. There's no
> Marathon Key.
>
> Vaca Key is betwen Knights Key and Pigeon Key to the west, Sombrero
> Key, Boot Key and Boot Key Harbor to the south, and Key Colony Beach
> and Fat Deer Key to the east. There's nothing close by to the north
> except Florida Bay.
>
> It's not something you could go to from a cruise ship very easily -
> you'd have to rent a car or some vehicle. Although it isn't much more
> than an hour's drive, it's too risky IMHO because if the highway gets
> shut down for some reason it can be blocked for several hours.
>
> When we were there on our boat we rented a car once or twice a month
> and went down to Key West and took some excursions around during that
> week.
>
> There's not too terribly much to see in Marathon except for a small
> museum and Pigeon Key. And fishing, boating and eating of course.
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