We came back to Blue Heaven as we said we would. Having breakfast at Blue Heaven is the Key West tourist's rite of passage. We got there relatively early to try to beat any crowds. We got seated by the bar at a big round table under the awning. We perused through the menus while the roosters roamed the mulch covered yard looking for food droppings.
We were not in a rush so we took our time to enjoy the pancake and omelet. The hardest decision was to add the bonus dessert at the end - the Blue Heaven Key Lime Pie. We had to do it.
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| Made our way back to Blue Heaven in Bahama Village |
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| Walking to Blue Heaven shortly pass 8:00 am, the Lighthouse guided us there |
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| Rustic home in Bahama Village, there is no cookie cutter home here |
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| The colorful chaos of Bahama Village |
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| A hen is keeping us company |
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| Pancake is served |
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| Lobster bacon eggs Benedict |
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| Bonus! The Blue Heaven Key Lime Pie |
After fulfilling our commitment to Blue Heaven, we were getting ready to fulfill another commitment. We had arranged a parasailing excursion with Fury the day before. We had to be at the Third Fury Booth behind the Opal Key Resort at 11:30 am.
We took our time to walk back to our hotel from Bahama Village shortly after 9:30 am. We freshened up at the hotel and caught the free Duval Loop Bus at Stop #12, Simonton and Catherine to the north side of the island for our 11:30 excursion.
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| The colorful mural in Bahama Village |
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| View of the Lighthouse on Whitehead Street |
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| Shadow of the Banyan Tree casting onto the historic Gato Building. Once a thriving cigar factory now houses the Florida Department of Health (and a covid test site) |
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| One of the historic homes nearby our hotel. Likely housed families nearly a century ago that once worked in the cigar industry |
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| Squeezing out a smile by the old timer's favorite Bull and Whistle Bar on the way to our parasailing excursion |
We used the restroom at the extremely nice (and pricy) Opal Key Resort before we located the Third Fury booth by the dock. We checked in and were told to gather by the waterfront. We chatted up with other curious tourists (a bare chested man from Georgia drinking from his flask every other sentence). Soon we were overwhelmed by even more tourists in ragtag ocean excursion gears looking to experience Key West with Fury. We heard the "parasailing this way" called and boarded the "Sky Walker" speed boat equipped to launch (and retrieve) us 300' above the Gulf of Mexico.
The "Sky Walker" can accommodate 12 guests. The guests would be launched in pair and we would rotate our seat counter close wise once each pair of parasailers were launched. The two skippers from Fury gave us the instructions and off we went. The speed boat broke the wave hard as the music from Zac Brown Band "
Toes" played on.
We were sitting at the 5 o'clock position so we were the last to be launched. One it was our turn, we quickly stepped into the harness and clipped on the safety vest. The captains wasted no time to launch us at a low altitude first, dipped us about knee deep in the ocean, and bounced us 300' into the air in matter of couple of minutes. We soared above the Gulf of Mexico and took in the view of Key West from high up. The whole flight lasted about 5 minutes. Our total sea excursion lasted for about an hour. After getting onshore, we stumbled back onto the Opal Key Resort ocean front from the boat feeling a bit sea sick. We were looking forward to the Cuban Coffee to settle our stomach a bit and we quickly found the Cuban Coffee Queen store located at Mallory Square.
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