Kawama Suntastic

11/12/2024

LADIES NIGHT💃 💃💃
DRINK FREE🍻🍷🍸🍹🍾
LIVE MUSIC🎸🥁🎵🎶
EVERY TUESDAY 6-7PM‼️
Along With The Keys #1 Happy Hour🌴

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08/09/2024

I am starting an album of Keys restaurant and happy hour info! One place per post so I can add pics when I go to each! Here is a start!

Crooked Palm Distillery. A sister company for the Islamorada Brewery and Distillery!

Food and drink specials at happy hour. Nice spacious indoor and outdoor seating.

Hand crafted cocktails from from their liquors and beer!

Not on water.

08/09/2024

It is well worth getting up early to watch the sunrise from the Kawama beach. After all, you can Aways nap by the pool later!

07/30/2024

We love cooking on the lagoon/pool side BBQ!!! It is so tranquil and steps from our home!!

06/09/2024

mountain range or sunset??

06/09/2024

Ron and I are finally back home and Kawama suntastic is looking awesome!!! Shoot us a message if you want to book between July 6 - September 17th or between December 5th- Jan 5th!!

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04/29/2024

This is why we love sharing our home!!!

03/31/2024

Da Beach Bar George Town

01/30/2024

Wanna come play in the Florida Keys?!?!

Your Road Trip of a LIFETIME! 71 Things to Do From Key Largo to Key West! > https://tripmemos.com/things-to-do-florida-keys/

12/17/2023

This is a fun and unique place to go boating!

THE HISTORY BEHIND OUR BELOVED TOILET SEAT CUT

Be sure to hit that Follow button here at Sandhopper adventures for off the beaten path keys history, facts and fun things to do with Capt Rob and Sandhoppper Adventures!

Toilet Seat Cut!! Verified accounts draw both Ire or the devine pleasure of thousands. For the history we look to resident Vernon Lamp, a local in the 50’s. Over time, Vernon used his small outboard motor to dredge the channel across this sandbar to shorten his daily trips to his favorite watering hole. Times were different then, we didn’t have the ecological protections that we do now.
Along came Hurricane Donna in 1960 that devastated the area, demolishing homes and spreading debris for miles.. when the storm cleared, Vernon noticed a toilet seat embedded on a nail on one of his make shift channel marker posts. In true keys spirit of survival and humor, Vernon decorated the seat and replaced it on that post. Thus, toilet seat cut was born. Locals began adding to the cut for various reasons to mark special occasions or rememberences of family members lost. All of us have at least one family member or friend that deserves a toilet seat as a headstone right😄 😄. Over time, the cut takes a hit from storms and high winds and comes back bigger and better than before. Fact: it’s not exactly legal, however removing it would draw such a ***t storm it’s is overlooked in the spirit of the uniqueness that is the Florida Keys. Straddling the south end of Tavernier and the North end of Islamorada, it is a true must see. It’s typically part of my daily tours and the reactions run from “what the heck” “ to some folks jumping into the water to take a photo with someone’s memorial to their keys loving grandparent, thier favorite university and just to put their head in a toilet seat. It truly is a light hearted and unique thing to see.
Capt Rob

12/17/2023

Fun facts about the largest lobster in the Florida Keys

FUN FACTS ABOUT BETSY, OUR 40FOOT LONG AND 30 FEET TALL LOBSTER..

Commissioned in 1980 by artist Richard Blaze of Marathon for a local restaurant owner hoping to draw in more customers. After five years of Richards painstaking work to completion, the restaurant had closed its doors.

Enter Tom Vellanti who acquired the 40 foot Fiberglas monster to display in front of his treasure island village. Shortly there after the village is turned into a school. Of course everyone wants a 30 foot tall lobster right?

Fast forward to 2009 when the anatomically correct lobster found it’s way to mile marker 86.7 . She was placed on the highway at the Rain Barrel Artist Village in Islamorada. She’s guarded the secluded little Village now for nearly 25 years.

Fun facts.. she is believed to be the 2nd most photographed site in the Florida Keys. 2 nd only to the Key West Bouy located exactly 86.7 miles South! It’s a pretty solid guess to say she’s the largest lobster in the world. After a carel and measured survey Capt Rob calculated that her tail would contain between 850 and 900 pounds of delicious lobster meat!

Most people don’t realize what a cool place the village behind it is. Just a tiny door that enters a gift shop. however the back of the shop opens up into a beautiful canopy of native hardwoods and a multitude of interesting shops.

next time bye give it a stop.

As always be sure to follow my pageSand Hopper Adventures Islamorada Florida for fun things to see and do in the Florida Keys. Get out in the water with Captain Rob and get an entirely different view on the Keys from the water. Easy online booking at www.sandhopperadventures.com or Capt Rob Direct 949-337-3966

When in town don’t forget our amazing five star bungalow. Check us out Castaway Island Vacation Bungalow Islamorada FL