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....

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...

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

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...

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...