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A February 2003 trip to Cabbage Key by Gypsy Canuck

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Quote: Off-boating one day we came across this beautiful little island and went to eat lunch.
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Beach Photo - Cabbage Key, Cabbage Key, Florida
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This is a 100-acre ancient Calusa Indian shell mound. Accessible only by boat, the island centers around a white clapboard inn built by mystery writer Mary Roberts Rinehart and her son in 1938. Today, the inn offers rustic guest rooms and cottages, plus a restaurant wallpapered entirely in autographed $1 bills. According to legend, a local fisherman tacked the first one to the wall so he would be guaranteed a cold beer on his next visit. Subsequent visitors followed suit, and today an estimated $20,000 covers the walls. The inn’s famous clientele, past and present, includes Ernest Hemingway, Walter Cronkite and Julia Roberts. Music fans will be interested to know it was the inn’s delectable fare that ...Read More

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P.O. Box 200
Cabbage Key, Florida
(941) 283-2278

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