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First stop was in Marathon where we stopped to visit the Turtle Hospital,<\/a>\u00a0a small non-profit organization dedicated to the rehabilitation of endangered sea turtles and has its own ambulance to transport their patients.<\/p>\nUnfortunately we arrived right after a tour bus (or 2) did a drop off, so the place was full of people, and it didn’t really appeal to us to fight our way through a tour with the masses. \u00a0We decided to continue up the road but, Christina has vowed to come back another time to learn more.\u00a0 The Dolphin Research Center\u00a0is a non profit research and education organization. \u00a0Their mission statement states:<\/p>\n They have four resident sea lions and over 25 dolphins in their care.<\/p>\n This place is definitely worth a stop along the Overseas Highway. \u00a0(Thank you to Carmel for the awesome photos capturing the animals in mid-flight.)<\/em> \u00a0 28 February – 4 March, 2017 The girls left Bob on Dreamtime for a few days, rented a car and ventured north up the keys toward Miami. We decided to take two days to travel the 165 miles, seeing some sights along the way. First stop was in Marathon where we stopped to visit the … Continue reading Sightseeing up the Keys<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165,"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions\/1165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>Next stop was the Dolphin Research Center<\/a>. \u00a0This place is definitely worth the time and money. \u00a0What we expected to be an hour or so visit, seemed to turn\u00a0into an enjoyable whole afternoon affair.![\"thumb_DSCN0001_1024](\"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/thumb_DSCN0001_1024-34-300x225.jpg\")
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Through Education, research and rescue, Dolphin Research Center promotes peaceful coexistence, cooperation and communication between marine mammals, humans and the environment we share with the well being of DRC\u2019s animals taking precedence.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n![\"thumb_DSCN0001_1024](\"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/thumb_DSCN0001_1024-24-300x225.jpg\")
So, although the photos may look like a “regular commercial” sea lion or dolphin performance often seen at theme parks, here, you really do get a sense that the animals are happy, and really do whatever they want. \u00a0You are able to get up close and personal with the dolphins and really interact with them. \u00a0![\"thumb_DSCN0001_1024](\"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/thumb_DSCN0001_1024-29-300x225.jpg\")
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