{"id":65,"date":"2009-09-12T08:56:13","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T14:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.14886.com\/archestozion\/?p=65"},"modified":"2012-01-21T10:41:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T15:41:58","slug":"biscayne-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Biscayne National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>Heading in from the Homestead Base area,   you might think you are in a scene from CSI: Miami,   driving around the canals,   seeing the dog racing track in the background, it&#8217;s the kind of place Horatio and the gang are often seen pulling people out of the water. But once you get to the coast, you&#8217;re in a whole new world.<\/p>\n<p>This is truly one of the beautiful places here in the United States. Problem is, most of it is underwater! The only parts you can visit if you don&#8217;t have your own boat are the Dante Fascell visitor center area (beautiful views) and the docks around the center. We won a calendar from the ranger here, because we were able to answer trivia questions about the park after viewing the museum exhibits. There is also a glass bottomed boat, which we had a reservation for, but it was too choppy that day to be able to see anything, so they changed it to a tour of a nearby Boca Chita Key &#8211; and the beautiful lighthouse that a rich man made for his wife who then died falling down the staircase. The key is beautiful, and was well worth the trip to this magical place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My favorite things to do here<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boca Chita Key<\/li>\n<li>Kayak the mangroves in our trusty inflatable &#8220;Sea Eagle&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Things I want to come back to do<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Come with a boat and explore the other keys (especially Elliott)<\/li>\n<li>Get PADI certified and dive the area reefs (most of this park is Underwater)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Fun Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>95% of the park is water<\/li>\n<li>You can rent kayaks here<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>National Park Service Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/bisc\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/bisc\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NPS Map<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/home.nps.gov\/applications\/hafe\/hfc\/carto-detail.cfm?Alpha=bisc\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/home.nps.gov\/applications\/hafe\/hfc\/carto-detail.cfm?Alpha=bisc<\/a><\/p>\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heading in from the Homestead Base area, you might think you are in a scene from CSI: Miami, driving around the canals, seeing the dog racing track in the background, it&#8217;s the kind of place Horatio and the gang are often seen pulling people out of the water. But once you get to the coast, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all_parks","category-visited","tag-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1317,"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/1317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}