BEYOND THE THEME PARKS

This river runs 54 miles from the longest river in Florida, the St Johns river. It runs through one of my favorite hiking spots, the...

Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive Lake Apopka wildlife drive is an unpaved one-way lime rock road that leads 11 miles around its northern shore....

The first is Dickson Azalea which was originally a watering hole for cattle ranchers and was donated to the City in 1924 by State Senator...

This little area close to Kennedy Space Center, is well known to locals as a great viewing platform to view manatees. There has now been...

To the North East of Orlando (25 miles/35 mins) sits one of the largest of Central Florida’s lakes that connects to St John’s river,...

The striking Roseate Spoonbill is one of my favorite birds. I find it fascinating, with its striking colors and funny shaped bill (hence...

They got this nickname because of their opportunist habit of dumpster diving and eating basically anything that us humans throw out,...

Palatka This small City can be found around 25 miles south west of St Augustine, and its name comes from the Timucuan word Pilotakata,...

This is one of our favorite Springs to visit but is the one more difficult to get to. I don’t really mean difficult, I mean more of a...

I love this place (which is south of St Petersburg) and recommend a lot of my friends and family visit here. It is so much more than a...

Beginning late summer/early fall you can view these wonderful small sunflowers along the St Johns River, Lake Harney or the most...

Here along the shores of the Tomoka river, you can walk the footsteps that the Timucua (native Americans) once took around their village...

This is one of my favorite places to visit. OK, I might be a little bit biased as it’s only a 20-minute drive from my home, but it is...

We’ve all heard of the tune “never smile at a crocodile”, well the same goes for the Alligator too. I remember when I first visited...

Juan Ponce de Leon led the first known European expedition to Florida (which he named La Florida, “land of flowers”) and was a Spanish...

The strange but gentle manatee was once mistaken (as folk law has it) for mermaids! The sailors that visited the Florida waters had never...

Did you know that there are several types of citrus grown in Florida? There are oranges (of course!), grapefruit, tangerines and tangelos...