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Dry Tortugas National Park Activities
Visitor Center in Fort Jefferson
Self-guiding walking tour of Fort Jefferson.
Ranger-conducted activities.
Bird and wildlife watching. The Dry Tortugas are renowned for spring bird migrations and tropical bird species.
Picnicking
Salt water sport fishing
Maine ocean islands provide the only nesting sites for Atlantic puffins in the United States. Eastern Egg Rock in the midcoast region, Seal Island and Matinicus Rock at the mouth of Penobscot Bay, and Machias Seal Island and Petit Manan Island off the downeast coast provide habitat for more than 4,000 puffins each summer.