Today is World Tourism Day! The goal of Swampy’s Florida is get everyone to travel and learn about our great state of Florida. We hope all will get out and explore. You can learn more about World Tourism Day[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There are still lumberjacks today and many men who work in timber industry here in Florida. There are hundreds of square miles of trees cut down to make a huge variety of paper products. The timber industry has been huge[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Alva, Zuber, Trilby and the egg dip into a stack of comic books for Comic Book Day! Swampy’s favorite comic book stores are the Coliseum of Comics stores. From Lakeland to Orlando Coliseum of Comics have stocked a full array[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The day recognizes the famous ‘Checkers’ speech made by vice presidential candidate Richard Nixon in 1952. In the speech he spoke about his new dog, ‘Checkers’. It was 2 decades later that Nixon would utter the words, “I am not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy and friends celebrate National Elephant Appreciation Day! Did you know there is a home for elephants in Fellsmere, Indian River County? Here’s the National Elephant Center website. You also can learn more about the National Elephant Center in Fellsmere[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Trilby, Zuber and Alva get in the pirate mood above. A couple centuries ago the above might not be such an unusual scene on certain parts of our Florida coastline. There were many pirates that thrived on getting treasure from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Trilby’s efforts to make a felt hat for Zuber demonstrates Zuber’s inability to read a ruler. There are very few locally owned mens stores in Florida and finding one that still sell hats is hard. The best is Nathan’s Menswear[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy scarfs a few hoagies in honor of ‘Eat a Hoagie Day’. Locations for hoagies can be spotty across the state. there are far more in southeast Florida likely due to the large amount of people originally from the northeast,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Happy National Peanut Day! Trilby happily munches Florida peanuts. There are hundreds of acres of land farmed in Florida for peanuts. Here’s the website for the Florida Peanut Producers Association: Home Here are a series of articles about peanut production in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ortona the egret beats Zuber to the ice cream treat! You canj learn more about Chocolate Milkshake day by clicking here: http://parade.com/506552/alison-abbey/shake-it-up-on-chocolate-milkshake-day-sept-12/ #ChocolateMilkshakeDay Save
Trilby finds hot cross buns at the Lake Worth Farmers Market. He then eats them all. Pasco Pete is ready to scurry Trilby out of there before the booth owner notices the buns gone. You can learn more about Hot[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Alva gets hungry reading so much and uses her book as a tray to carry a Swanaon TV dinner out to chew on. You can learn more about TV Dinner Day by clicking here: http://wtkr.com/2016/09/10/eat-up-its-national-tv-dinner-day/ #TVDinnerDay