Florida hotels collection

The fort at St Augustine is built of a stone made from shells: even the land here comes out of the sea. That water is fresh and grassy in the Everglades, where herons fish among the mangroves; flat and warm on the Gulf coast, where the white sand of Boca Grande and Naples squeaks underfoot; more forthright on the Atlantic, which beats against the sea walls of Palm Beach, behind which clipped hedges hide the pink stucco and shaded patios that Addison Mizner favoured. Further south, the Keys are strung along a single road; the water turns turquoise. Winter amounts to a breeze.