An Afternoon at Bahia Honda State Park

We left our campground at about 11:00 a.m. to go to Bahia Honda State Park that is about 30 miles further southwest down the Keys. We had signed up to go snorkeling at 1:30 p.m. When we arrived, the young man at the dive shop told us that due to the winds the day before, the visibility was only about 10 feet. So after debating whether or not we should go, we decided to postpone the snorkeling until the next day. We figured we wanted to have the best chance to see as many fish as possible, and the young man thought that by tomorrow, the conditions would be better.

Since we were already at Bahia Honda, we decided to spend some time biking around the park including going to the beach the was about 3 miles away from the dive shop. Our "grocery cart" converted into a "beach cart" making it really easy to haul mats, towels, books, etc. down to the beach.

The beach was beautiful and we enjoyed reading as well as going into the water to cool off.