Visitors love taking an airboat ride to see gators, manatees and other wildlife. Ginnie Springs in North Central Florida boasts a 200-acre natural water park oasis with seven freshwater springs ideal ...

Go during manatee ... in O’Brien, Florida — an area known as “Spring Country” — Little River Springs is a popular destination for swimming, snorkeling, and cave diving.

Graham Williams of the St. Johns River Water Management District land management will discuss the Hal Scott Preserve, home to ...

The Orlando Amateur Radio Club’s 78th annual “HamCation” event will feature more than 30 educational forums, 100 commercial vendors, 200 swap tables and outdoor tailgate to demonstrate and sell ...

Here, you might spot flamingos, pelicans, herons, West African manatees ... Its diving, however, is truly world-class, featuring everything from shipwrecks to underwater volcanoes. Legendary dive ...

Le Tub is more than just a restaurant – it’s a testament to the quirky, creative spirit that makes Florida such a unique and ...

Even though manatees can be seen in Florida year-round, manatee season is the best time to see them swimming in Floridian waterways. With over a month left of manatee season, here are some of the ...

Manatees are slow-moving, seagrass-eating marine mammals. Florida manatees spend up to eight hours a day grazing on seagrasses and other marine or freshwater vegetation, consuming up to 10% of ...

Recent news articles and broadcasts have drawn on a 2024 University of South Florida study to claim that manatees are not native to Florida or only arrived on Florida’s west coast in the 1950s.

Florida's youngest manatees died in record numbers last year, possibly from lingering malnutrition or a counterintuitive sign that sea cow reproduction is slowly recovering, after years of fewer ...

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