Big Munson Island on Seabase - What to Know!

Are you going on the Florida Keys Seabase high adventure sailing, snorkeling trip and womndering what is the Big Munson Island? Big Munson Island is an pristine, uninhabited island with mangrove swamps, over 100 acres (40 hectares) in size! Sitting in the lower Florida Keys off of Big Pine Key, it is surrounded by the clear blue-green waters. Some Seabase adventures go here as a day trip, others stay up to 4 days there!

The official seabase website says: You:

will paddle a Polynesian war canoe more than five miles to a primitive barrier island located in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Upon arrival at Big Munson Island, your unit will camp under a canopy of gumbo limbo trees, mangroves, and lush vegetation. Your crew will ocean kayak, go for a fishing excursion, shark fish, paddle to Munson Rocks for a night snorkel, and explore the largest wilderness on Earth: The ocean.

Comments from some who have been there:

Hermit crabs everywhere.
Don't hang your wet socks tree branchs to dry. Birds will steal them!
The tiny Key Deer were the size of a medium dog
No-see-ums thick as a cloud that would devour you if you didn't have Avon Skin So-soft ANd/or no-seeum netting on.
Little racoons that try to sneak up and steal food right out of your hands.
Poisonous, like poison ivy, except the bark has the oil causes a reaction. Beware it's pealing bright orange bark
Tarballs that wash up on shore. Yuckl.