Bound by the history, the islands of Cabbage Key and Useppa carry out the tourists on different paths.
The passengers who make the tail to go up on board the Chadwick Lady are probably not conscious of the distinctions of class which separate them.
But those are quite present: approximately half of these customers of Captivated Cruises will visit the island of Cabbage Key – a quiet destination worthy of Jimmy Buffet -, while the others will live one hour or two of great luxury, on the private island of Useppa.
The two small islands, located at only a few minutes one of the other, are in edge of Intracoastal Waterway, along the GULF Coast floridienne, just in the north of Strong Myers.
Together, they constitute a microcosm of the history and culture of Florida. Cabbage Key seems to be transplanted quiet Keys of Florida, while Useppa could be a completely suitable off-shore enclave for cities as refined as Boca Raton and Palm Beach.
But each one offers entertainments quite particular to the one day old visitors. Cabbage Key accomodates several cruising ships each day, in more of the pleasure boats. The boats, moreover, are the only means of joining these two islands.
The principal attraction of Cabbage Key is a doubled restaurant of an inn, built approximately 12 meters above the level of the sea on the foundations of a place in the past attended by Calusa, of the autochtones, but also, in a way quite as important, on the foundations of two stories (or legends) modern.
Cheeseburger in Paradise
One of these stories puts in the high-speed motorboat the composer-songwriter who incarnates best Florida, Jimmy Buffet, whose Cheeseburger song in Paradise was perhaps written in homage to Cabbage Key. Mr. Buffet refuses to clarify the question, which makes it possible the legend to survive and hundreds of commemorative Hamburgers cheese to be swallowed each day with this establishment extremely stocked.
One can eat inside or on the terrace, where one is likely however to receive the visit of the lizards and the tortoises which elected residence there. But even if you choose the terrace, do not fail to also visit the interior, where you will go up until the source of the second legend.
The history tells that in 1941, a man without the penny which was on the point of leaving for a fishing party to the silver plated tarpon signed a ticket of a dollar and pinned with the wall to make sure that it could be offered a beer to his return. It was quickly imitated by others and today, the walls of the restaurant are covered with at least 30 000 $ – some say 60 000 $ – out of autographi