Bird Key Harbor anchorage (Dry Tortugas) (Florida)

Bird Key Harbor anchorage (Dry Tortugas) (Florida)

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Bird Key Harbor anchorage (Dry Tortugas) (Florida)
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Description

Bird Key Harbor, reached through the narrow channel encircling Garden Key, wich is well marked, is an excellent anchorage.
The entrance to Bird Key Harbor is narrow, and care is required to avoid the shoals on either side.
The main entrance channel is marked by daybeacons.
2012/04/8
Update
India
Bird Key Harbor, qui se trouve dans l'étroit canal encerclant Garden Key et qui est bien balisé, est un excellent mouillage.

L'entrée dans Bird Key Harbor est étroite, il faut faire attention aux bancs qui se trouvent de chaque côté.
L'entrée principale du chenal est balisée.

2012/04/8
Update
India
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Garden Key (Dry Tortugas) (Florida)

0.5nm
50°
Garden Key is the site of historic Fort Jefferson National Monument, a hexagonal structure with walls 425 feet long rising from a surrounding moat.
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Garden Key SW anchorage (Florida)

0.5nm
71°
the best shelter is SW of Garden Key and the channel encircling it, where protection is afforded from NW winds.
However, the holding ground is poor, as boats drag anchor along the silty bottom.
Anchorage overnight is allowed in this area.
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Garden Key Lighthouse (Florida)

0.6nm
53°
The lighthouse on Garden Key arose in 1826. After the 1873 hurricane, a new lighthouse of iron plate was built atop Fort Jefferson, 70 feet High atop the fortress, marking the harbor entrance until its deactivation in 1924.
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Loggerhead Key (Dry Tortugas) (Florida)

2.3nm
283°
Loggerhead Key, the other of the two principal keys in the
Dry Tortugas, is 2.5 miles W of Garden Key. It have a conical tower, lower half white and upper half black, near the center of Loggerhead Key.
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Bush Key (Dry Tortugas) (Florida)

0.8nm
67°
Bush Key, just E of Garden Key, is a refuge for noddy and sooty terns. These birds come in early April and leave in September.
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