October 24, 2025 · 5:55 pm
Welcome to the Florida Key’s ONLY freshwater lake! The Blue Gap is an area vacationer attraction that was born from a former quarry supplying the Florida Key’s with materials for highway beds within the 1930’s & 40’s together with stones for Henry Flagler’s East Coast Railway. The empty deserted quarry over time crammed up with rainwater to seem because it does right this moment supplying native wildlife very important freshwater.
Though I used to be anticipating a brighter clearer blue shade of water, I can see how this has grow to be a vacationer attraction. In case you have a look at the signal on the blue railing pictured on the left which reads: “Please Do Not Put Arms or Ft Via Railing”… I’ll end what was left off: “Or You Could Lose Them To A Hungry Gator!” Although others and I appeared for gators, I’m unhappy to say we got here up empty… however thank goodness, since there’s NO fence or railing stopping the gators from wandering onto the walkways solely 6 or 7 toes away from the water’s edge! Don’t even take into consideration going there at night time otherwise you may by no means 
return from which you got here! 🙂 With that mentioned, I noticed solely a turtle upon a rock and three mosquitoes (two of which bit me) 😦 on my journey to the Blue Gap, possibly your go to will produce a larger abundance of wildlife than I encountered! Joyful looking!
You could find this Blue Gap by driving down US-1 to Mile Marker 30.4 bayside and turning onto Key Deer Blvd. When you’ve turned, merely go down 2.9 miles in your left the place you’ll see the 8 automotive parking zone the place you’ll pull in. Oh yeah, it’s towards the legislation to feed the gators both willingly giving them meals or being their meals… the one distinction is that in case your their meals… you gained’t be prosecuted as a consequence of lack of remaining proof!