BEYOND THE THEME PARKS

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...

If you don’t want to spend the whole day at Kennedy Space Center but would like to sample a little of the history of space missions, then...

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...

Then this is the place you need to visit! Aptly named “Sunset Beach Park” (pretty original, huh?) it really is worth the effort to get...