Key West Audio Tours

14/03/2022

The resolution. Ships can dock at Pier B. EOS.

Cruise ships of all sizes will continue to visit Key West, one at a time, docking only at the privately run Pier B. The two city-controlled docks will only host smaller ships, and only if no ships are at Pier B. On the advice of their attorney… A new cruise ship resolution, passed by city […]

06/03/2022

Wyland is in town!

Key West whaling restoration is finished! Added a kraken just for the fun of it. I’m headed over to my gallery at 623 Duval Street for my last show. Sea you there! 🐙

26/02/2022

Meeting Tuesday could decide the cruise ship dilemma. https://keysweekly.com/42/mallory-square-makeover/?utm_campaign=Keys%20Weekly%20Email%20Blast&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter

Key West’s cruise ship mediation is set for Tuesday, March 1. At a city commission meeting that evening, City Attorney Shawn Smith has said, he expects to update the commission and the community about that mediation. Attorneys for the city, along with representatives from the privately operated Pi...

25/02/2022

Over Key Lime Pie?!? Blasphemy!!!

Floridians on both sides of the aisle are sticking a fork in a proposal that would make strawberry shortcake the state’s official dessert. The recent survey conducted by Sachs Media found tha…

24/02/2022

A portion of the Seven Mile Bridge, an engineering marvel completed in 1909, has been transformed into a linear park

23/02/2022

Arts Fest this weekend.

The Key West Art Center will present the 57th annual Old Island Days Art Festival at  Truman Waterfront Park on Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 26-27, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.  This year’s show brings back some longtime favorite artists and introduces many new participants. The waterfront setting has gi...

20/02/2022

Don't let those naysayers condemn Keys beaches.

When it comes to East Coast beaches, there's no beating the Florida Keys - and these are the best of the best, officially ranked.

20/02/2022

Headdress Ball coming February 26

Merrymakers can show off their most creative, extravagant and colorful masks and headdress regalia at Key West’s 38th annual Headdress Ball set for Sat...

20/02/2022

Town's looking pretty good for almost 200!

Key West, Florida, celebrates its 200th anniversary this year. Find out how to participate in the festivities.

20/02/2022

Entertainer of the year!

Key West musician Nick Brownell was recently named Entertainer of the Year at the inaugural Key West Music Awards. “I’m so honored to have received the Iggy Award for Entertainer of the Year,” Brownell says. “I’m still riding high from the awards show.” Born in Kansas, Nick’s family mo...

20/02/2022

A compromise on the cruise ship situation in the works?

Key West could cancel cruise ships at the two piers it controls, capitulate to their continued use of the privately operated Pier B and seek possible concessions from Pier B’s operators with regard to ship size, capacity and frequency. It’s an outcome many Key West residents have suggested and e...

20/02/2022

https://independenttravelcats.com/finding-ernest-hemingway-in-key-west-florida/

Hemingway in Key West. One of the most notable people to live in Key West was writer and avid traveler Ernest Hemingway, and as a visitor you can still find many traces of Hemingway in Key West. In April 1928, Hemingway and his wife Pauline Pfeiffer would come to Key West to pick up a car and while....

19/02/2022

See the sights and sounds (and tastes!!) of Key West in a phone based audio tour. Start at the Gulf of Mexico, end at the Atlantic.
In between, see dozens of sites, including Mallory Square, Mel Fisher Museum, the Little White House, Captain Tony's, Sloppy Joe's, the oldest house in Key West AND the oldest schoolhouse, Mile Marker Zero, Hemingway's home, the old lighthouse and the southernmost buoy. (And these just scratch the surface.)

19/02/2022

https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/politics-issues/2022-02-12/key-west-finds-most-of-those-living-on-the-hook-are-part-of-the-local-workforce

A bill in the Florida Legislature would bring a 90-day anchoring limit in the Keys closer by reducing the number of new moorings near Key West from 250 to 100 before it can take effect.

19/02/2022

19/02/2022