Florida Keys Travel Vision is a weekly look at some of the news and events taking place in and around the Florida Keys. We cover the Florida Keys from Key West to Largo and every island in-between.
Former NFL and college football coach Jimmy Johnson has lived in the Florida Keys for more than 15 years. Now an analyst for "Fox NFL Sunday," Johnson's name graces Jimmy Johnson's Big Chill at Fisherman's Cove, a dining and entertainment complex, as well as a private residence club in Key Largo. But JJ's reasons for residing in the Keys go beyond business interests. Watch the video to discover why.
The Florida Keys offers one of the most unique ecological systems in all of North America and Java Cat will take you into the heart of it aboard a custom built sailing Catamaran. Sail into a shallow backcountry marine sanctuary filled with many unique creatures. Kayak around uninhabited mangrove islands. Discover multitudes of tropical fish while snorkeling over a pristine sponge and coral garden. As we sail west from Key West, we glide into the aqua and emerald colored water of the Key West N...
We love our GoPro Cameras. They allow us to capture video right in the middle of all the action. This video was captured in Key West, Florida during a Jet Pack flight.
A South Florida lifeguard landed on a Key West beach Thursday, completing a historic paddleboard crossing of the Florida Straits from near Cuba to the island city.Cynthia Aguilar finished the 103.2-mile journey in 29 hours and 12 minutes, after beginning Wednesday morning about 14 miles off northern Cuba. She is the first solo prone paddleboarder (propelling the board with her arms) to cross the Florida Straits and, when verified, should set a record for the longest nonstop prone paddle.Her ef...
Kenny Chesney playing live at the Hogs Breath Saloon in Key West, Florida.
Minimal construction and marginal seaworthiness meant maximum hilarity Labor Day Weekend, when nearly 40 teams tried to keep plywood-and-duct-tape vessels afloat during Key West's wacky Schooner Wharf Minimal Regatta. Rules required each team to build a boat out of a four-by-eight-foot sheet of plywood, two eight-foot two-by-fours, a roll of duct tape, a pound of fasteners and epoxy paint. As spectators cheered, team members navigated the vessels through a "sink or swim" course at Key West's H...
In what may be the world’s only coast-to-coast conga line, revelers in Cuban attire congaed from the shores of the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico to celebrate Key West’s colorful Cuban heritage. Led by the Comparsa Key West dance troupe, the conga line proceeded down the mile-long Duval Street from the ocean to the gulf Friday evening. Located just 90 miles from Cuba, Key West welcomed thousands of Cuban immigrants in the 1800s and was the site of a flourishing cigar industry. At the ind...
Elaborate racing "dragons" are to invade Marathon's Sombrero Beach during the annual Battle in the Bay Dragon Boat Festival set for Saturday, May 14. A unique direct-from-the-beach launch enables spectators to get close-up views of the sleek, 40-foot-long race boats. They can observe the boats in action as teams of 20 paddlers power them in unison along a 380-meter race course parallel to the beach — a display of strength and teamwork among men and women of all ages. Dragons represent strength...
A Sunday dive on the world’s second-largest ship ever sunk as an artificial reef might have have appeared like the set of a James Bond movie, but it was actually the first event of the 2011 Formula H2O-Underwater Scooter Racing season. The Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg became an underwater racetrack for competitors using diver propulsion vehicles during the Vandenberg Underwater Grand Prix staged off the Florida Keys. Divers using DPVs raced around the Vandenberg’s superstructure, competing in multi...
A $1.25 million restoration project has kept a historic sailing schooner in Key West, the same city it was built and launched 72 years ago. The full refurbishment of the 130-foot Western Union required more than three years and was spearheaded by a local organization formed to preserve the vessel and keep it in Key West. Launched in 1939, Western Union is a traditional American coasting schooner that served the Western Union Telegraph Company for 35 years as a cable repair ship working on line...