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The crossing was rougher than predicted—six-foot swells, the kind that made the crew pass out green ginger chews like communion wafers. But Margo stood at the rail the whole way, salt spray plastering her hair to her face, watching the horizon. And when Fort Jefferson finally rose from the sea—brick-red and hexagonal, a Civil War relic guarding nothing but sea turtles and sky—she opened the box.

Securing is widely considered one of the most challenging logistics in the U.S. National Park system. Because the Yankee Freedom III is the only commercial ferry authorized to transport visitors 70 miles west of Key West to Garden Key, demand perpetually outstrips supply. dry tortugas ferry reservations