We were heading south towards Mile 0 and Key West today. After a quick breaky in the room Sean tried his hand at driving on the wrong side of the road as we headed along the overseas highway. After driving over the 7 mile bridge and passing through a few keys our first stop was the Bahia Honda State park which at $4.50 each to enter then only being able walk on 50 metres of the rail bridge was a bit of a rip off. Next we hoped to have more luck turning off on big...

Time to get off the celebrity Equinox and explore some more on land. We had to get up early to have breakfast & be out of the room by 8am but then didn't have our departure time until 9.20am. We had to wait around in the theatre for a while watching repeat clips from the cruise video but soon enough we disembarked, collected our bags, queued for immigration then caught a taxi to the Fort Lauderdale Airport Trirail station for the train to Miami airport. The t...

It's cruise day!! We had downloaded the Uber app to use to get us to Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale so after breakfast & a walk to the atm we were soon flagging down our über driver who's short fall was he barely spoke English. About 40mins later we were being dropped off which given Sean had a $15 credit it was only $19USD & took a 1/3 of the time of public transport. Check in was fairly swift, we dropped our bags (but had nothing small to tip the p...

Off to the Everglades today! Our day tour wasn't picking us up until a reasonable 9.40 & they were there early to take us to our smaller bus for the drive out of Miami. On the way there was a rather loud commentary with some good view of the city & port as we left to the west. Once at the Everglades Safari Park we were directed to airboats for a half hour zoom over the water & grasses. We saw some alligators, the first swimming across in front of the ...

Feeling far more refreshed after a nights sleep we were ready to explore Miami beach. The hotel breakfast was down the street at a restaurant but was a 'grab & go' affair with disposable plates/bowls/cups etc. The selection wasn't too bad with cereal, bagels, juice, coffee, yogurt & fruit. After fuelling up we wandered towards south beach, a couple of blocks over from the hotel. Along the beach side stretch were blocks of pastel coloured Art Deco building...