SHOPPING
• Cigar-box purses: Angelika, 81917 Overseas Highway
• Custom-designed jewelry: Blue Marlin Jewelry, 81915 Overseas Highway
• Fishing gear, any and all imaginable: World Wide Sportsman, 81576 Overseas Highway
• More fishing gear: Islamorada Tackle, Mile Marker 81.6, but expect the manager to tell you that Florida "lobster" are nothing like the real thing, which come from Maine (as does he)
• Really cool shoes and sandals: Sandal Factory Outlet, 81917 Overseas Highway
• Tarpon feeding: Robbie's, near Mile Marker 77 at the Lignumvitae Channel
FOOD
• All-you-can-eat buffet: Whale Harbor Inn Restaurant, mile marker 83.5
• Key lime martini: Zane Grey Lounge, second floor of World Wide Sportsman, 81576 Overseas Highway
• Key lime pie: Papa Joe's, 79701 Overseas Highway
• Meals: Ziggy's Crab Shack, 83000 Overseas Highway
This article appears in Aug 12-18, 2004.