Closer Ventures

Dry Tortugas National Park is home to Earth's third largest barrier-reef ecosystem, topped only by those of Australia and Belize.
It is also home to one of the world's most misleading names, aside from the climate-reversed duo Iceland and Greenland.
Wet Pirate Mini Archipelago - which would be a much better name - is a string of seven tiny Mexican Gulf islands just 110 kilometers from Key West, and can only be reached by boat or aircraft.
Maybe I can avoid a harrowing 35 hour plane trip to Palau for my tropical oceanic paradise.