... Among the last vestiges of this older Keys, along side the sand-blue waters, bridges, eagle nests, and mangroves, are some of the blackest, deepest night skies I have ever heard tell of. For over a year, I had planned to observe the 1998 Leonids from Long Key State Park at Mile Marker 67. ... AND of course, there were MOSQUITOES and NO SEE UMS! Bugs beyond any hope of counting, from first night to last, bugs I can only remember having experienced before in the Everglades in Wet Season. ...