Coupon Key Island

Coupon Key is a private island in the Lower Keys, out in the shallow water off the Overseas Highway near mile marker 27.5. There is no bridge and no road. You get there by boat, which is the entire point, and the quiet when the engine cuts is the thing guests remember.

The house has a bar on its roof. Not a deck with a cooler on it, an actual bar at the top of the building, which is where you will be at six in the evening with the breeze coming off the water on the ocean side of the island and the light going orange across the flats. Below it there are porches, and around it there is water in every direction, along with the birds and the fish and whatever else turns up.

Coupon Key is booked through Spottswood Companies in Key West. Call them to work out dates, how many of you there will be, and how you are getting out to the island, since all three depend on the booking.