Swampy hopes everyone is having a Merry Christmas! Swampy made his annual trek to the light spectacular in Venetian Gardens in Leesburg. Above are videos of part of the light show. Below are photos from other lights around the park.
Archive for Swampy’s Florida Travels
Swampy strolls a park in Mt. Dora and finds Santa left him a stocking! Goodies galore for Swampy! If you look real closely in the upper left hand corner is a lizard who jumped into the photo. Thank you, Terisa[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Every year at Christmas time Swampy visits his dear friend Lucile Fair in Orlando. In one month she will be 105 years old. Despite her age she was remembering so many years ago when she, as a little girl, came[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
‘Morrow’s Nut House’ wins most Christmasy in the Countryside Mall in Clearwater. Fully decked out in garland, lights and plenty of holiday packaging and bows, this location might just have the largest amount of Christmas spirit of the mall stores[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s Swampy at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium store in the Countryside Mall in Clearwater. It’ll only be up until the first week in January. The location near Sears has lots of aquarium toys and plenty of merchandise from the Pinellas[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The display in John Wilson Park in the heart of Safety Harbor. A wonderful gazebo sits near this tree that various events are held in.
Here’s Swampy with a new offering from Krispy Kreme: a doughnut snowman. A big difference is a remodeling in the store that occurred last July. The display cases and booths were entirely replaced. The movable table and chairs seen here[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was a tough one! Two vied for the spot. Both locally owned and operated – again! The Swampy Christmas winner this time is the independently owned sports store, ‘Sports Corner’. The oddly yellow tree with ornaments depicting many sports[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy along the Christmas lit Canal Street in New Smyrna Beach.
Swampy takes a half mile stroll through Erna Nixon Park near Melbourne. This park holds the wonders of pine flat woods and wetlands along a natural and boardwalk trail. There is also a butterfly garden.
Swampy decided freezing weather was the best time to gobble a cone of ice cream! What better place to do that on a freezing night than Del’s Freez in Melbourne? This location opened in 1956 as a Tastee Freez. In[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Christmas card cheer in Cocoa at the Florida Historical Society offices with Swampy and Barbara West, Associate Director CFO.