Key West

The last stop for Nate and I in the US was Key West. What a great place. Very cool vibe and totally different from anywhere we'd been so far. We read somewhere that someone once said that they shook America and all the nuts fell to the bottom. Well that's Key West.

For some reason the place is full of chickens. Yes, weird i know. They are just cruising around and waking you up at sunrise like annoying peacocks on Rottnest. We saw a few squished chicks on the road too:(

Anyway, one of the local dishes is Conch fritters. Here are some we sampled... More dough then conch, but still delicious.

The first night we went down to the pier to watch the sunset and drink some booze. It's a bit like Broome where everyone goes to watch the sunset. So here it is...

While we were drinking the guys next to us saw these two approaching and asked for photos. Neil and I thought it would be amusing to get one too. Afterwards we were like "who the hell were they?", but it turns out we actually knew them! They had been finalists in that Can you Duet show we'd seen taped in Nashville. haha.

Anyway, turns out that the guy who I asked was actually famous too! He's Gabe Garcia and he was runner up in their TV show like American Idol for country music. So here's me and my new best mate Gabe. Check him out on youtube if you don't believe me!

Next day we spent the morning jet skiing around the island. Here's a pic of Christian and Casie on their jet ski.

That night we jumped on a 65ft yacht to do a sunset wine tasting cruise. Didn't learn anything about the wine but it was plentiful and Christian and Nate got to drive the yacht so everyone was happy.

On the way home we noticed a sign for a deep fried hot dog. Even though Christian wasn't hungry he decided this was not an opportunity to be missed so here he is with the hot dog. It was filled with cheese, wrapped with bacon and then deep fried. Luckily the bun wasn't deep fried too, although I'm sure that's available somewhere.

The last day we got up early and started the journey to Miami to jump on a plane. Lucky we did start early though as there's only one road into and out of the Florida Keys and we got stuck in a mega traffic jam. Not 2.5 hours like the one in Tennesse but still fairly rubbish when you have a flight to catch. Here's Christian showing the international sign for FAIL with the traffic jam in the background.