Pin itEarlier this week I was back out at Babcock Wilderness Adventures in Punta Gorda, Florida, for a meeting which included a tour of the working cattle ranch and Telegraph Swamp. I never get tired visiting the place and always spot something new. Having lived more than three years in Everglades National Park, I have…
Pin itRejuvenate and connect with your inner tree-hugger on New Year’s Day by participating in a First Day Hike in a state park near you. Here in the Sunshine State, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) Florida Park Service is sponsoring free, guided hikes in nine state parks on Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012, as…
Pin itThe first weekend of December I joined about a half-dozen amateur photographers walked through the Lemon Bay Conservancy’s Wildflower Preserve for a photography contest which runs through Feb. 15, 2012. This inaugural competition will help document the flora in this new preserve, which was 80-acre Wildflower Golf Club located in Cape Haze, Fla., the…
Pin itIf you’ve always wanted to give camping, kayaking, and maybe fishing a try, then consider attending the Women’s Outdoor Weekend at Caloosahatchee Regional Park March 16 – 18, 2012, near Fort Myers, Florida. Local outdoors-women will be helping out and showing ladies a variety of outdoor activities including a hayride, wood burning, archery, camp…
Pin itLiving, eating and breathing fishing is a guy’s dream, right? Fed up with eccentric family dynamics, 20-year-old Gus Orviston (Zach Gilford, Friday Night Lights) leaves home and embarks on a quest to spend most of his time fly-fishing. In doing so, he evolves from a socially awkward boy into a self-assured young man. Independent…
Pin it“Be vewy, vewy qwiet. I’m hunting wabbits*,” I thought to myself while walking through Tippecanoe Environmental Park in Port Charlotte, Fla., one Saturday morning last month. Instead of wabbits, err, rabbits, we were on the lookout for Florida Scrub-Jays. Why Are Florida Scrub-Jays Special? Why are these birds special? Well, their habitat is pretty…
Pin itThe A-frame cabin resting above the treeline in the Talkeetna Mountains shook each time I rolled over in my bed. To reach my bed, I climbed a wood ladder to the loft and shared an open room with Lyn, one of my traveling companions during our Alaska adventure this summer. Madge, our third musketeer,…
Pin itThe last day of Summer 2011 is tomorrow and I spent my final day off of the season at Stump Pass Beach State Park in Englewood, Fla. I walked the beach hunting for fossilized shark’s teeth, listening to the shorebirds and soaking up the sun. I was in good company with other beachcombers and…
Pin itFemale musk ox at the Musk Ox Farm in Palmer, Alaska, live an average of 20 years while males have a shorter lifespan of 15. Why? Not because females are heartier and healthier but one can say the males are more “bullheaded.” Males, called bulls, typically die from brain damage due to all the…
Pin itWow, oh wow! Denali National Park blew my mind with regal fall colors of reds, oranges and golds blanketing endless mountains and valleys. Visiting Alaska the last week in August, I knew weather would be hit or miss with most days being rainy and cloudy. During my trip Mother Nature graced us with cool…
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