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FLORIDA KEYS CORAL  REEF                              snorkeling  destination.  It  is indeed
            CREATURES ID CARD                                     difficult to do it justice with a description
                                                                  or  a Franko Map. Because it is so
            At last,  after years  of thinking about it
            Franko has explored and dived the Florida             fantastic. Franko love's the Florida Keys.
            Keys,  and  made  a  map  and  fish                   Islands, U.S.A."  is a unique and

            identification guide for the The  Conch               wonderful place, and the fact that you can
            Republic." This is one of Franko's best               just drive to it (as opposed to having to fly
            looking products, probably because of the             in, such  as all Caribbean and Pacific
            memories of South Florida and the Florida             islands) makes it accessible to limitless
            Keys from his visits there. The map side              numbers of people. The Florida Keys are

            (side 1) of this (H x L) 6" x 9" (15.24cm x           definitely a world class destination. Also
            22.9cm) card is a beautiful  mini map                 on the map side is  a  world globe and a
            showing the southern end of Florida from              compass rose.
            Miami to Key West. The main roads are                 The coral reef creatures' side of this map
            show, with the most prominent features.               (side 2) is similar to my Caribbean reef
            Those features, of course, include                    creature's guides, since in general they

            Everglades National Park, Biscayne                    share  the  same  array  of  coral  reef
            National Park, Key Largo, Islamorada,                 creatures,  including corals and sponges.
            Marathon, Big Pine Key  and  the Lower                Franko shows over  100 species on this
            Keys, and Key West. The map shows the                 waterproof Florida Keys Coral Reef
            viewer how to go from Miami South on                  Creatures  Identification  Guide.  Note  on
            Highway 1 to Key Largo, where the                     side 2 that the heading says, Florida Keys

            Highway name becomes Overseas                         Coral  Reef  Creatures, plus  it says in
            Highway." Starting  north of  Key Largo               Spanish Criaturas Del Arrecife De Florida
            the map also shows the main diving and                Keys. When Franko was touring and
            snorkeling sties of the entire Florida Keys.          exploring  the Florida Keys he couldn't
            Having visited and gone out  on diving                help but notice, just as he does in everyday
            boats as well as snorkeling and kayaking              life in California, that a large number of

            in a variety of Florida Keys sites, Franko            visitors and  workers were speaking
            can say with authority that he now know               Spanish. In other areas  where he has
            why the  Conchs" (people native to the                produced maps and reef  creature
            Florida Keys) and all of the dive operators           identification  guides  (such  as  St.  Croix,
            consider this to be the diving capital of the         U.S.  Virgin  Islands,  Cozumel,  Mexico),

            world.                                                he  made  his  products  bilingual.  In  fact,
                                                                  even his Guam fish card is bilingual with
            The number of sites and the accessibility
            make this THE world-class diving  and                 Japanese  and English, and he has a
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