Category: Animals
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Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park & Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins

Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park, one of Florida’s 1,000 springs, is a gem. The entire trail is only about 1.1 miles and an easy walk. I highly recommend it. It’s well kept, has wide sidewalks and boardwalks, great signage, lots of comfy benches if you need to rest, and a couple of places to grab…
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Seaside Seabird Sanctuary

The Seaside Seabird Sanctuary is an unassuming property scrunched between high-rise apartment buildings and is a bit hard to see at first glance. Look for the giant pelican statue out front. It has a hook in its mouth and a line wrapped around an injured wing. The sanctuary gets about 10,800 calls every year, rescues…
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Zoo Tampa at Lowry Park

As the number of blog posts increases, you’ll find I love animals and seek opportunities to “commune” with them. The older I get, the more I appreciate them. I wasn’t always that way. As a child, I teased our Chihuahua mercilessly; in college, yelled at my German Shepherd if he didn’t sit when I told…
