Posts in Tag: Birding
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Corkscrew Sanctuary – Every Visit is Different
I’ve visited Corkscrew Sanctuary in SW Florida at least a dozen times over the past thirty years and I’m always amazed at how completely different each visit is from the past ones. On one visit the water might be high and there will be wildlife everywhere, while on another it might be low and instead […]
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Lakeland Florida – One of the State’s Nicest Cities
At the 2016 North American Travel Journalists (NATJA) conference I made a point of setting up a meeting with the reps from Visit Central Florida. I was particularly interested in two attractions – Legoland to which I did return in 2017 with Alison, my son Dale and his better half Kari and my oldest grandson […]
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Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve, Fort Myers
I’ve been coming to the Fort Myers area for almost forty years and I thought I had visited pretty well all the major wildlife viewing areas and parks in Lee County and most of Southwest Florida. Until today that is, when I found one almost right next door to where we are staying. I’d passed […]
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Santa Cruz Island – A Quick Visit
Everyone knows the saying, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade” and that’s exactly what I’m about to do as I head out to Santa Cruz Island for the day. One of the main reasons I have headed to Oxnard, California for the North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA) annual conference is to spend the […]
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Myakka River State Park – Experience the Canopy Walk
This is another in my occasional series on what many people including the Florida State Park promoters, call ‘the real Florida’. Yes that too has become a cliche, but trust me many of Florida’s many state parks are real treasures and the antithesis of the Disneyfied version of the state that most visitors, for better […]
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Kauai Helicopter Tour – Creating Memories That Will Last a Lifetime
This is one of a continuing series on a visit to the four main islands of Hawaii that Alison and I made a few years ago. The posts have been updated for accuracy as of 2021. In the last post we played our first round of golf at the beautiful Princeville Makai course, sharing it […]
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Makai Golf Course – Playing Golf with Albatrosses and Nenes
This post on the Princeville Makai golf course is the first of nine on Hawaiian golf courses from a visit Alison and I made a few years ago. It has been updated for accuracy as of 2021. In the last post I described how we came to stay at the Hanalei Bay Resort in the […]
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Kauai – Welcome to Hawaii’s Famed Garden Island
This the third post from a trip to the four main islands of Hawaii that Alison and I took a few years ago. The posts have been updated for accuracy as of 2021. We spent the first full day in Hawaii in the Waikiki area hiking up to Diamond Head. We will return to Oahu, […]