Upper Matecumbe Key Inside

• Location: Islamorada
• Mile Marker: 1160
• Lat / Lon: N 24° 55.324' / W 080° 38.124'
• Depth: 5 to 8 feet
• Description:

  From red daybeacon "84," steering a course of 150 degrees magnetic and keeping your eye dead ahead on the charted tall radio tower, you will pass through a local anchorage area offshore from Lorelei Restaurant and the entrance to the Coral Bay Marina and close to restaurants and shopping. You may be able to tie the dinghy at The Worldwide Sportsman and the Morada Bay Beach Cafe small boat dock. (Call and ask.) The Lorelei Dinghy Dock, however, is reserved for diners (as of Jan. 2020).

  NOTE: Per Florida Statute 327.4109

  The owner or operator of a vessel or floating structure may not anchor or moor such that the nearest approach of the anchored or moored vessel or floating structure is:

  1. Within 150 feet of any marina, boat ramp, boatyard, or other vessel launching or loading facility;
  2. Within 300 feet of a superyacht repair facility. For purposes of this subparagraph, the term "superyacht repair facility" means a facility that services or repairs a yacht with a water line of 120 feet or more in length; or
  3. Within 100 feet outward from the marked boundary of a public mooring field or a lesser distance if approved by the commission upon request of a local government within which the mooring field is located. The commission may adopt rules to implement this subparagraph.