Space Shuttle image of the upper Keys, courtesy of NASA.
Roll the cursor over the image, and from bottom right, to top left,
note:
- dark blue tones of the deep ocean
- rough light blues of the reef tract
- smoother light to medium blues of the back-reef lagoon
- the partially vegetated island chain of the Keys
- network pattern of linear mud banks in the shallow, carbonate-mud dominated greenish waters of Florida Bay (and Biscayne Bay to the north)
- dark green of the mangrove swamps on the north side of the Bay
- browns of the Everglades
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The Upper Keys
- Location 1 Key Largo Dry Rocks
- Location 2 Grecian Rocks
- Location 3 Molasses Reef
- Location 4 South Sound Creek
- Location 5 Long Key
- Location 6 Windley Key