BY JENNIFER BABSON

  TAVERNIER - A group of 36 Cuban migrants landed early Tuesday on an island off Tavernier in the Upper Keys.

  The migrants -- 22 men, 11 women and three children -- arrived on Dove Key near mile marker 91 at about 2 a.m., a U.S. Border Patrol spokesman said.

  ''All are in good health,'' said Cameron Hintzen, the Border Patrol's resident agent-in-charge in the Keys.

  Members of the group said they departed Cuba's Villa Clara province early Monday night in a 31-foot, white speedboat with two outboard engines, Hintzen said. The migrants said they paid smugglers $5,000 each for the trip.

  After they landed, ''one person swam to shore and went to a residence in Tavernier on the ocean side, and the resident called the Monroe County Sheriff's Office,''
  Hintzen said.

  Hintzen said Dove island is located roughly one mile from the Keys mainland.

  No smuggling boat was spotted Tuesday by the U.S. Coast Guard or Border Patrol near the scene of the landing.