Here’s Swampy with Patrick at Los Olas Florida Antiques with lots of Florida goodies!
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After 35 years of serving folks from around Lake Okeechobee, Lightsey’s Seafood Restaurant shows how to combine taxidermy. Below is the entrance and that they build meals from fresh fish.
The First United Methodist Church of Okeechobee was built in 1924 as the Methodist Episcopal Church South. There’s a back wing for Sunday school that appears to have been built around 1960. Speaking to many in the church, little is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s Goff’s server James with Swampy. Since 1945 Goff’s has been serving ice cream to Orlandoans on Orange Blossom Trail, just west of Downtown. They’ve added other snacks like chili dogs along the way. The neighborhood has changed quite a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
href=”http://swampysflorida.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/20130323-201539.jpg”> Here’s Orange Bowl Lanes in Kissimmee. This ten lane spot has been seeing strikes since 1961. Though it’s on the busy Irlo Bronson Highway teeming with tourist spots, this place stays packed. Right now there must be 150+ people[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the abandoned Miller’s Lakeside Motel in Intercession City in Osceola County. There are so many of these across our state. More in communities that have struggled as Intercession City has over the decades. This far western community of Osceola[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy Live: at the Marion County Springs Festival with, Dunnellon City Councilwoman, Penny Fleeger and, Springs Festival board member/super volunteer, Lois Braukmuller.
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Swampy’s on the road again. This time in Vero Beach at the 16th annual Coastal Florida Curriculum Fair. One of Swampy’s biggest supporters, The Knowledge Exchange in Palm Bay has Swampy and his handler, Rob Smith, Jr. at this event[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s the historic Menger Hotel where Teddy Roosevelt gathered his Rough Riders and made the plans to charge up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War. The Riders were specifically selected from the South and Southwest with the thought that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy launches from the Landbridge Trailhead to hike to the Landbridge over US75 and then takes the blue blazed trial off the main Florida Trail for a more than three mile hike today.
Brevard County, Florida – This morning Big Cypress Swampy emerged from a hollow tree in the wilds of the Big Cypress just south of the Tamiami Trail. He lumbered up and out enough to find the great Florida outdoors illuminated[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…