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A compact,
immaculately manicured community,
KEY BISCAYNE
, five miles off mainland Miami, is a great place to live - if you can afford
it. The moneyed of Miami fill the island's upmarket homes; Richard Nixon had a
presidential winter house here. The only way onto Key Biscayne is along the
four-mile Rickenbacker Causeway ($1 toll), a continuation of SW 26th Road
just south of downtown, which soars high above Biscayne Bay, giving a
gasp-inducing view of the Brickell Avenue skyline.
Crandon Park
Beach , a
mile along Crandon Boulevard (the continuation of the main road from the
causeway), is one of the finest landscaped beaches in the city, with
crystal-clear waters, barbecue grills and sports facilities (daily
8am-dusk; $4 per car; phone 305/361-7385). Three miles of yellow-brown
beach fringe the park, and give access to a sand bar enabling knee-depth
wading far from shore.
Crandon Boulevard
terminates at the entrance to the Bill Baggs Cape Florida State
Recreation Area , four hundred wooded acres covering the southern
extremity of Key Biscayne (daily 8am-dusk; $3.25 per car; phone
305/361-5811).
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Hurricane Andrew took a devastating toll on the area in
1992, but most of the destroyed trees are beginning to grow back thanks
to aggressive replanting, and the trails and boardwalks have been
repaired. An excellent swimming beach lines the Atlantic-facing
side of the park, and a boardwalk cuts around the wind-bitten sand dunes
toward the 1820s
Cape Florida
lighthouse
. Only with the ranger-led tour can you climb through the 95ft structure
- attacked by Seminoles in 1836 and incapacitated by Confederate
soldiers aiming to disrupt Union shipping during the Civil War.
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