Florida’s Regular Lobster Season is August 6, 2024 through March 31, 2025. Divers descend on the waters off Florida in search of the Caribbean spiny lobster, the smooth tail spiny lobster and the spotted spiny lobster. Limits are carefully set and monitored, and licenses are required, so make sure you check for all governing regulations. […]

Attracting fortune hunters, artists & an assortment of others. The first Spanish settlement in the Keys was Cayo Hueso, the Isle of Bones, so named because explorers found the remains of a vast Indian graveyard. The British later Anglicized Cayo Hueso into Key West. Key West was founded in 1822, and by the 1850s grew […]

SaveAlligatorLighthouse.org (Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau via AP) The iconic Alligator Reef Lighthouse, an almost 150-year-beacon that kept maritime traffic clear of perilous coral reefs off the Florida Keys, is to be acquired by an Islamorada community-based organization committed to its preservation. “Alligator Reef Lighthouse has stood since 1873,” said project organizer Rob Dixon while […]