Visitors to Key West Florida often come for the tropical setting, the famous Key West fishing, or to visit Dry Tortugas National Park. They might stay in a famous Key West bed and breakfast and explore the narrow streets of Old Town. There’s a spot downtown in Key West that might get overlooked by anyone who doesn’t have kids or who doesn’t have a avid fascination with marine life. It’s the Key West Aquarium, and it’s one of the best deals in town for getting to know what the real Key West is all about. Here in Key West’s oldest tourist attraction you can discover sharks, reef fish, lobster, tarpon and sting rays up close. You can touch sea cucumbers and crabs. You can gaze directly into the eyes of a Goliath Grouper. Nowhere else in town can you get to know the marine life quite so easily, so that you leave Key West with a real feel for the ocean, the reef, and the sea creatures that inhabit this wonderful underwater world.