Cedar Key, FL info

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I have never been there, but have an opportunity to purchase a place from a friend. The friend inherited it, never been there either. Before I bother to go look it over I would like opinions of the place. I prefer a laid back type area, not super touristy with bumper to bumper traffic.

I was in Folley Beach, SC recently and don't care for such crowded communities.

Thanks for any comments.
 
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Laid back it is. SMALL town, does have tourists. (It's Florida). Has taken, and will again, storm damage from hurricanes. If you fish, you are in the right spot.
Has an annual arts festival which draws a crowd.
I've visited there a number of times, and will do so again.
 
I've been there once and found out a buddy got married there. As said above it is laid back and definitely off the beaten path. Dad lives in the Ocala area and goes to Cedar Key once or twice a year.
 
Used to go there often and take my small boat out fishing. Small airport there that I've used also.
I'm sure it's grown a bit since then, but not much since it's only so big.
Great seafood and try some smoked mullet there. I got hooked on it.
Other than sitting around watching the Gulf during sunsets and fishing, there's not much else going on. It is quiet and I enjoyed that.
It's also a good drive out to it so people usually have to want to go there to be there. It's not "just off the beaten path"
 
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Cedar key clam chowder.
Boat docks
Tidal waters
Redfish
Trout
Noseeums

Ps
I don't know of any beaches.
And fishing It's inshore, offshore, or air boat fishing.
Airboats can get into some skinny water where some redfish and blackdrum get trapped on low tide.

Yep, Piece of Paradise

Papa
 
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Any community along that part of the Florida west coast is invested with "NoSeeUNs" (sand gnats) which no one /company has been able to find a method /spray to abolish /kill them.
Cedar Key, Yankeetown, Inglis are small towns that has to content with the gnats.
Old Timers would rub Vaseline on the house screens in an effort to keep the gnats outside as the gnats are so small that they come though the screens.
With the timber cuttings the gnat are moving eastward unfortune. If the gnats come to Dunnellon I will be moving. I had all the "Noseeuns"issues when I was a Levy County Deputy.
Because of the gnats I wouldn't live in Cedar Key if I was given a house free.
 
"Because of the gnats I wouldn't live in Cedar Key if I was given a house free."

My friend did get it for free and has no desire to even look it over. He lives in VA and will retire to the NC mountains in one year. He does not have the time or inclination to pursue repairs or a renovation of the place. I am not sure I want to make the drive to bother looking it over.

Thank you all.
 
ColbyBruce said:
"Because of the gnats I wouldn't live in Cedar Key if I was given a house free."

My friend did get it for free and has no desire to even look it over. He lives in VA and will retire to the NC mountains in one year. He does not have the time or inclination to pursue repairs or a renovation of the place. I am not sure I want to make the drive to bother looking it over.

Thank you all.
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I'll take it!
 
Closest I've been was as a participant in the canoe race from Otter Creek to Gulf Hammock on the Waccassa River. I'd like to revisit but in the years since I just haven't made the ride on 19 north of Tampa.
Hopefully come June.
 
I have relatives in Apoka who offered to go look it over and give my friend a logical assessment of it. For a fee. I am not interested in acquiring a problem home in a skeeter infested area. Thank you all.
 
jimmyj said:
Any community along that part of the Florida west coast is invested with "NoSeeUNs" (sand gnats) which no one /company has been able to find a method /spray to abolish /kill them.
Cedar Key, Yankeetown, Inglis are small towns that has to content with the gnats.
Old Timers would rub Vaseline on the house screens in an effort to keep the gnats outside as the gnats are so small that they come though the screens.
With the timber cuttings the gnat are moving eastward unfortune. If the gnats come to Dunnellon I will be moving. I had all the "Noseeuns"issues when I was a Levy County Deputy.
Because of the gnats I wouldn't live in Cedar Key if I was given a house free.
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Wouldn't those awful Palmetto bugs take care of the noseeums? :eek::D
 
Never been but read some online visitor reviews.

The worst reviews I saw on line were all referencing negatively the public swimming beach. The repeated problem was that it is only 300 feet long. The waterline area is unmaintained with a thick mat of seaweed that stinks and draws flies. The sea bed off the beach if thick muck that you will sink a foot deep into.

If you don't need a swim beach, the reviews look good for fishing and birding, on a generally quiet island.
 
Get the key and give us a randevu time and place.......the forum will check it out for you. Might take a week or so but we'll give you a full report :)
 
billwill said:
Get the key and give us a randevu time and place.......the forum will check it out for you. Might take a week or so but we'll give you a full report :)
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It has been empty for a while. I imagine it is covered in mold and infested with insects and critters.
 
If that's the case (infested & moldy), it must truly be a shack. I kinda doubt it, though.

I have to say one of the nicest short vacations I have ever taken was to Cedar Key. Beautiful little town, wonderful boating and fishing, all the people we met were quite nice, and it'd make a great place to live (but I love Florida, so maybe I'm prejudiced a wee little bit).

I'd sure go down and see it, at least, maybe wait till mid-April or early May if that's convenient to see the (IMO) best weather.

Bob
 
straightshooter1 said:
If that's the case (infested & moldy), it must truly be a shack. I kinda doubt it, though.

I have to say one of the nicest short vacations I have ever taken was to Cedar Key. Beautiful little town, wonderful boating and fishing, all the people we met were quite nice, and it'd make a great place to live (but I love Florida, so maybe I'm prejudiced a wee little bit).

I'd sure go down and see it, at least, maybe wait till mid-April or early May if that's convenient to see the (IMO) best weather.

Bob
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Shut up!
Please lol
 
Vacationed there about 20 years ago with the ex.
Remember liking it - but was kinda surprised that we seemed to have the only Southern accents there.
 
Nice area

I spent a motorcycle getaway weekend there once. Had a great time. As said, it's not a Beach town more of a tidal fishing/boating area.

Know two people from Orlando area, each who kept a place there and finally retired to it. One became a clam farmer and the other was an artsy type and liked that scene.

Avon 'Skin So Soft' mixed with water in a sprayer will keep those noseeums and skeeters away ;)
 
Yeah, lots of artists there, mostly women, but since I can't draw a straight line with a ruler, I didn't much care.

I thought the food was really good, didn't seem, expensive to me, but YMMV.

I think, if it was me, which I realize it isn't, I'd at least drive by and look, might find a treasure or, if it's a pigpen, just head back east to civilization. Lots of good eats all around there.

IMO, some of you have really given the OP a really wrong impression of the area.

Bob
 
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