Sunset Point

The southernmost point of the Leonida Keys, a famous sunset-celebration gathering spot where locals and tourists applaud the sky every night.

Sunset Point is where the Leonida Keys run out of land, and every night, a few hundred people gather to pretend this is a moment worth applauding — which, to be fair, it sort of is. A concrete marker shaped like a buoy announces the southernmost point in Leonida, and tourists line up for photos with it while street performers fire-juggle, folk-sing, and pick pockets with varying degrees of professionalism. The sunset itself is genuinely spectacular, a reliable twenty-minute wash of orange and pink that the whole crowd applauds as the green flash hits the horizon. The tiki bars just up the road do their biggest business during the evening, moving frozen drinks at an industrial rate to passengers from the cruise ships docked a mile away. Beneath the tourist bustle, the small marina is a busier operation than it looks: charter boats running out of Sunset Point have a long and profitable tradition of coming back with catches that would impress a customs agent.