Use the visitor center at the campground as a landmark. On the return trip, use the nuclear power plant just South of the return site as a landmark. Unfortunately, it's has been fast disappearing due to pollution and divers' carelessness. Reservations are required. The company also offers guided scuba and snorkeling reef trips led by underwater naturalists.
Booking is essential.
Showers, no laundry, restrooms, and drinking fountains. Located about nine miles from Convoy Point, Elliott Key is only accessible by boat. Loop Trail makes a 1.5-mile circle from the bayside visitors center, through a hardwood hammock and mangroves, to an elevated oceanside boardwalk. It's likely that you'll see purple and orange land crabs scurrying around the mangrove's roots. The Old Road is a 7-mile tropical hammock trail that runs the length of Elliott Key.