IN THE FLORIDA KEYS MOON TRAVEL GUIDE
LOCAL FESTIVAL TREASURE
Dragon Boat Festival featured in new edition of Moon Travel Guide
Te newly released first edition
of Moon Florida Keys, Including Miami & the Everglades by Laura Martone shares the best ways to experience the Florida Keys in- cluding consideration of “annual events such as the Battle in the Bay,” a dragon boat race that takes place at Sombrero Beach every May. According to the Moon Web
site: “for more than 30 years, Moon Handbooks have appealed to an eclectic group of travelers, from backpacking students to solo adventurers to families on vacation and a budget. With expert writers delivering a mix of honest insight, first-rate strategic advice and an essential dose of humor, Moon Handbooks ensure that travelers have an uncommon and entirely satisfying experience — an a few new stories to tell.”
Battle in the Bay Dragon Boat
Festival shares space with peren- nial favorites — Te Turtle Hospi- tal, Dolphin Research Center and Pigeon Key — in the Marathon and the Middle Keys’ section of the travel guide. Tere is even a sidebar story on the origin of dragon boat racing in China. Author Laura Martone particu-
larly adores the Florida Keys. After scooping last year’s dragon boat races, she wrote: “Each May visitors flock to
Marathon’s Sombrero Beach, an oceanside stretch of sand accessible via Sombrero Beach Road near Mile Marker 50 to watch the Bat- tle in the Bay Dragon Boat Festi- val (
www.battleinthebay.org), an annual race of festively decorated dragon boats. Launched directly from the beach, the colorful boats constitute more than just a heated competition on the water. Every year dragon boat teams are en- couraged to gather pledges for the charities of their choice.”
Florida Keys’ Moon publication,
www.moon.com/books; 3rd Annual Battle in the Bay Dragon Boat Festival,
www.battleinthebay.org
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