Key Biscayne Cape Florida Lighthouse Tours
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| Lighthouse tours are available on a first come first served basis and are given by a Park Ranger at 10:00 A.M., and 1:00 P.M.. Typically, the tours are not too terribly crowded and if you would like to attend a tour, then show up at the entrance gate to the lighthouse around one of those times and a Ranger will show up to answer any and all questions that you or those in your group may have about Cape Florida. You will be walked through the "Keeper's Cottage" (a historically correct reproduction) and told about what life as a lighthouse keeper during that period of time was like, you will likely be led to the lighthouse itself. Depending on weather conditions, you may be able to walk up the stairs to the top of the lighthouse from where you will have the most fantastic vantage point of the entire park as well as Stiltsville, Fowey Rocks lighthouse (the lighthouse that replaced the Cape Florida Lighthouse), Soldier's Key (the island where the soldiers that built Fowey light lived while working on the new lighthouse) and on a clear day, you can look past Soldier's Key and see several of the "Ragged Keys", Boca Chita, Sands Key, and Elliott Key. To give you and idea of where you are in relation to the rest of the Florida Keys (or those Keys connected by railway and road), Elliott Key is more than halfway from where you are to the Northern tip of Key Largo. |
The Keeper's Cottage in front of the Cape Florida Lighthouse |
Cape Florida Lighthouse with the Keeper's Cottage from the Atlantic Ocean |
The need for a lighthouse is clear as these flats are entirely exposed at certain times of the year and underwater in a matter of hours. |
The grass flats are filled with conch, sea urchins, and various other crustecea. Seafood meals would have been readily available for the lighthouse keeper |
The view to the east from the top of Cape Florida Lighthouse
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