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What are the Best Tropical Islands to Visit?
Florida and Caribbean Beaches
Here is some travel information for your vacation to the warm and sunny beaches and islands of the state of Florida, and the Caribbean countries.
For information about Hawaii, you can go to my Hawaii Island page. For tropical recipes you can go to my food page. This photograph is of a Fort Lauderdale, Florida beach.
Jimmy Buffett Music
If you are unable to go on a vacation, you can listen to these CD's or read these books and escape to a tropical island wherever you are.
Jimmy Buffett Books
The best books that he wrote and biographies.
Florida
Tourist Attractions
Many tourists visit all the famous beaches in Florida like South Beach which has the Art Deco District along Ocean Drive and Tropical Deco with pastel colored buildings.
The Conch Republic, Key West, has many tourist attractions like the many bars and clubs of Duval Street, the sunsets at Mallory Square, and the Hemingway House. Key West is the farthest Florida Key away from the mainland and is the Southernmost point of the United States. Key West is also the only place in the United States that has the perfect tropical climate to grow key limes.
The Florida Keys are a group of small islands that are made out of coral reef formations. They begin at Biscayne Bay and stretch out into the Gulf of Mexico. They are connected to the mainland by an overseas highway that is more than a hundred miles long. The Keys have many tourist attractions, including beautiful beaches.
Miami-Dade County, is a famous resort city. The largest industry is the tourists. The city can accommodate many visitors at the same time.
Miami Beach has thousands of apartment buildings and hotels that are open all year long with lower costs in the summer. Many of the hotels are very luxurious. The white sand beaches, palm trees, tropical climate, and recreational areas attract millions of tourists to Miami every year. Many retired people in the United States move to Miami because of the healthy climate there.
A Bird on the Beach
Florida Travel Guides
Good information for your vacation.
An Orchid in the Florida Everglades
A Bird in the Everglades
South Beach
Famous Buildings in the South Beach Art Deco District Along Ocean Drive Poll
Which Famous Building Is Your Favorite?
The Keys
Top Sights of Key West Poll
Which is Your Favorite?
Southernmost Point of U.S.
Famous People from Key West Poll
Which is Your Favorite?
Key West Lighthouse
The Warm and Sunny Caribbean Beaches
The Caribbean Islands have many great places for tourists, like Anguilla, Antigua, Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, St. Lucia, St. Martin, Trinidad, and Tobago. There are Beaches and Sandals Resorts at many of these islands.
Caribbean Travel Books
Good information for your trip.
Puerto Rico
Fish Near the FL Keys
Key Limes
The State Pie
Key limes are smaller and more yellow than Persian limes. They are like a mix between a lemon and a lime. They got the name key lime because Key West is the only place in the United States that has the right tropical conditions for them to grow. The trees grow 12 to 16 feet high and have thorns on them. The key lime pie is the Florida state pie.
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Do You Like Warm Sunny Weather?
I live in tropical warm sunny weather year round, so actually crave and often holiday in cooler climates. It is wonderful to live amongst a tropical landscape though and I do love my colonial style tropical home and garden.
Not when it's over 30 degrees.
With winter hanging on longer than usual this year in Wisconsin, I really enjoyed your warm sunny pictures!
We visited Barbados a number of years ago - would love to do so again!
I *love* sunny weather. Which is why your lens drew me like a moth to a flame on a grey day in a London January. Particularly like your photos, and feel warmer already. Many thanks!
Love the sunshine, the sea, and everything coastal Florida. Have lived here, most of my life. Autumn is lovely in Florida...
I love, love, love the beach. But more than that, I love the water. I am always looking forward to my next trip to the Caribbean. Nice lens!
As long as it is not too hot then YES!, great lens..I want to visit America one day especially some of these places, thanks for sharing
I live in Naples, FL! I love the beach, the ocean, the trees, the birds, the sun, everything!!
Lovely images - thanks - I shall probably never see Florida now.
Would love to visit Florida and Carribean beaches, love the sound of sea and the cool breeze.
I love Florida. That's why I live here. :)
Lovely here in Florida now. Come on down! Lensrolled to my Remembering Florida Before Disney lens.
I love Key West and the keys in general. I spent 3 years in Florida, in Hollywood and Deerfield Beach. Lensrolled to my lens A Walk Around Deer Creek which explores condominium living in South Florida.
I love sunny warm weather and will visit the Caribbean someday soon, to see those beautiful beaches.
Yes, yes and yes.
But unfortunately here right now we are in the middle of a small snow storm.
Yes I do like warm sunny weather!
I hate snow!
Anybody want some?
I love Florida, as well as the Caribbean! We went to Nassau last summer and had such a fantastic time!
Cool lens. I've never been to Florida, but it looks so nice.
I want to visit beautiful Florida and also the Harry Potter theme park in Universal Studio.
I like Key West. I would like to go to Florida again.
Do I??? Absolutely yes! I remember in high school in Willoughby Ohio when everyone went to Florida for Spring Break and came back with tans. Us? Well, we never made it anywhere. So, I am eternally grateful each day that I wake up in Florida. So much to do. And generally the weather is warm.
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Some of them were born at Key West and some of them just lived there for a few years.
I liked that "Famous People from Key West Poll". They're really ALL from Key West, like born there? Or just grew up there?
Anyways, I love Florida, and therefore I love your lens! Great job!
I love Florida beaches. Nicely done.
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Thanks for the nice comments, everybody. :)
Ahhh....I need to get out of Connecticut and go somewhere warm :)
Heh, wish I could grow some of those key limes up here. Love them pies. ;)
Great. Now I wanna go somewhere! :)
Great lens. I rated 5 star!
And thanks for the welcome on the forums.
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Thanks for the inspiration, and thanks for the welcome.
I rated 5 star!
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looking at the sapphire blue sea's really relaxing. can't wait till summer.
Very useful lens.
5* from me.
Good job. :}
No snowstorms here, but may get down to freezing, the beach on Cancun looks very inviting.
Nice lens...Florida is my favorite place to (which I guess is why I moved here...LOL)
Nice lens! Welcome to Squidoo, and especially to All Things Travel.
Cool lens!
This is a very informative lens. I will dwell on these images in lieu of the snowstorm which is on the way.
Of course I do love Florida! I like the warm climate and couldn't imagine living anywhere cold anymore..........
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Great lens 5*, wonderful photography and recipes too.
Wouldn't think of living anywhere else. Great lens!
Great I thought I was cold before...lol - Now I want to go on a vacation. Great lens.
I love the warmth, especially at this time of year.
Great lens
Lizzy
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