Wanderlust Wednesday - Key West Sunset

The famous Mallory Square sunset picture and for good reason.  Mallory Square in Key West Florida is one of those must do sunset pictures.  People come from all over the place to enjoy the free entertainment in the square and the beautiful sunset and with good reason.  This is one of the MOST beautiful places to take a sunset picture.  Every direction you turn is another gorgeous sight to take in and attempt to photograph.  I had to have taken a good 50 - 75 sunset shots and got several of them that I absolutely love for different reasons.  The picture above was one of them.  Read on to see others....




Key West sunset picture

My family and I took a trip to the Keys in March of 2011.  The weather was gorgeous, but too cold to swim except for my son who had no issues with the chilly water haha.  We stopped at several places in the Keys and stayed in a condo in Key Largo.  Mallory Square was a place that I wanted to hit for the sunset.  The square has free street entertainment for everybody.  People come out in droves to watch the entertainment and to shop and eat on the square. 

 

Everywhere you turned there was a new act going on in the street.  So many to choose from.  We ended up watching a trained cat act that was quite good.

The guy who had trained these cats was absolutely hilarious and the cats had total attitudes.  We loved it and laughed so hard our sides hurt.  Each evening in Mallory Square they have their Sunset Celebration.  This is a celebration of arts and crafts, street performers, food carts, etc.  You walk around while waiting for the sun to go down and watch all of these guys and girls and eat hotdogs.  I'm not sure how family friendly it is as the evening goes on, but while we were there it was very family friendly and even better it was FREE! 

 

 

The famous Key West buoy.  We seriously had to wait in line for like 30 minutes to get this picture taken.  Note to fellow travelers, go early in the morning for this so you don't have to wait in line.  For me it was worth it, even though its a total touristy thing to do.  But seriously how awesome is to to be at the southernmost tip of the continental US.  By the way the actual southernmost tip of all the United States is on the island Hawaii and is called South Point.  Been there, done that one too.  Bet you didn't know that piece of information :)?  The wait was not too bad though because we were able to talk to the other travelers in line and when it was your turn you had the opportunity to have somebody take the shot for you and in return you take their picture.  It works out well for all involved.

All in all our trip to Key West and Mallory Square though somewhat "touristy" was well worth the lines and the crowds.

 

This is me at South Point in Hawaii, the official southernmost point in the United States.  No big long lines here, it was practically deserted.  Absolutely beautiful, but that's for another post :).

The famous Mallory Square sunset picture and for good reason.  Mallory Square in Key West Florida is one of those must do sunset pictures.  People come from all over the place to enjoy the free entertainment in the square and the beautiful sunset and with good reason.  This is one of the MOST beautiful places to take a sunset picture.  Every direction you turn is another gorgeous sight to take in and attempt to photograph.  I had to have taken a good 50 - 75 sunset shots and got several of them that I absolutely love for different reasons.  The picture above was one of them.  Read on to see others....




Key West sunset picture

My family and I took a trip to the Keys in March of 2011.  The weather was gorgeous, but too cold to swim except for my son who had no issues with the chilly water haha.  We stopped at several places in the Keys and stayed in a condo in Key Largo.  Mallory Square was a place that I wanted to hit for the sunset.  The square has free street entertainment for everybody.  People come out in droves to watch the entertainment and to shop and eat on the square. 

 

Everywhere you turned there was a new act going on in the street.  So many to choose from.  We ended up watching a trained cat act that was quite good.

The guy who had trained these cats was absolutely hilarious and the cats had total attitudes.  We loved it and laughed so hard our sides hurt.  Each evening in Mallory Square they have their Sunset Celebration.  This is a celebration of arts and crafts, street performers, food carts, etc.  You walk around while waiting for the sun to go down and watch all of these guys and girls and eat hotdogs.  I'm not sure how family friendly it is as the evening goes on, but while we were there it was very family friendly and even better it was FREE! 

 

 

The famous Key West buoy.  We seriously had to wait in line for like 30 minutes to get this picture taken.  Note to fellow travelers, go early in the morning for this so you don't have to wait in line.  For me it was worth it, even though its a total touristy thing to do.  But seriously how awesome is to to be at the southernmost tip of the continental US.  By the way the actual southernmost tip of all the United States is on the island Hawaii and is called South Point.  Been there, done that one too.  Bet you didn't know that piece of information :)?  The wait was not too bad though because we were able to talk to the other travelers in line and when it was your turn you had the opportunity to have somebody take the shot for you and in return you take their picture.  It works out well for all involved.

All in all our trip to Key West and Mallory Square though somewhat "touristy" was well worth the lines and the crowds.

 

This is me at South Point in Hawaii, the official southernmost point in the United States.  No big long lines here, it was practically deserted.  Absolutely beautiful, but that's for another post :).

The famous Mallory Square sunset picture and for good reason.  Mallory Square in Key West Florida is one of those must do sunset pictures.  People come from all over the place to enjoy the free entertainment in the square and the beautiful sunset and with good reason.  This is one of the MOST beautiful places to take a sunset picture.  Every direction you turn is another gorgeous sight to take in and attempt to photograph.  I had to have taken a good 50 - 75 sunset shots and got several of them that I absolutely love for different reasons.  The picture above was one of them.  Read on to see others....




Key West sunset picture

My family and I took a trip to the Keys in March of 2011.  The weather was gorgeous, but too cold to swim except for my son who had no issues with the chilly water haha.  We stopped at several places in the Keys and stayed in a condo in Key Largo.  Mallory Square was a place that I wanted to hit for the sunset.  The square has free street entertainment for everybody.  People come out in droves to watch the entertainment and to shop and eat on the square. 

 

Everywhere you turned there was a new act going on in the street.  So many to choose from.  We ended up watching a trained cat act that was quite good.

The guy who had trained these cats was absolutely hilarious and the cats had total attitudes.  We loved it and laughed so hard our sides hurt.  Each evening in Mallory Square they have their Sunset Celebration.  This is a celebration of arts and crafts, street performers, food carts, etc.  You walk around while waiting for the sun to go down and watch all of these guys and girls and eat hotdogs.  I'm not sure how family friendly it is as the evening goes on, but while we were there it was very family friendly and even better it was FREE! 

 

 

The famous Key West buoy.  We seriously had to wait in line for like 30 minutes to get this picture taken.  Note to fellow travelers, go early in the morning for this so you don't have to wait in line.  For me it was worth it, even though its a total touristy thing to do.  But seriously how awesome is to to be at the southernmost tip of the continental US.  By the way the actual southernmost tip of all the United States is on the island Hawaii and is called South Point.  Been there, done that one too.  Bet you didn't know that piece of information :)?  The wait was not too bad though because we were able to talk to the other travelers in line and when it was your turn you had the opportunity to have somebody take the shot for you and in return you take their picture.  It works out well for all involved.

All in all our trip to Key West and Mallory Square though somewhat "touristy" was well worth the lines and the crowds.

 

This is me at South Point in Hawaii, the official southernmost point in the United States.  No big long lines here, it was practically deserted.  Absolutely beautiful, but that's for another post :).