DANIA BEACH, Fla. – For half a century, they have haunted the swampy forests east of Federal Highway. The Dania Beach monkeys, African vervet monkeys thought to have been released by an old tourist attraction in the 1950s, beg bananas,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Time for a 1976 Tampa-St Petersburg promotional film! Grab the popcorn!
Everglades National Park plans to restrict motorized boating on Florida Bay, designate additional land as wilderness and make the park more accessible to visitors as part of the first overhaul of its management plan in more than 30 years. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is my newest watercolor painting, ‘Song in the Clay Springs’. The painting setting is the Clay Springs in western Seminole and northwestern Orange County. Today commonly referred to as Wekiva, or Wekiwa, Springs. This is being commissioned by, Orange[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Trilby’s run through the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge has him tripping over an honoree of today’s celebration! #NationalDogDay!
Pasco Pete is given a sponge cake from Lion Country Safari for bringing the elephant back to them. Trilby is ready to eat. First to find a knife. Here’s more about National Sponge Cake Day: http://www.food.com/food-holidays/sponge-cake-day-0823 #NationalSpongeCakeDay
Pasco Pete and Trilby find themselves on the south side of Jupiter Inlet and there to greet them is an elephant! Where the stray elephant came from is quickly solved as they learn he slipped out of Lion Country Safari.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As the description states, this is the Overseas Express of Henry Flagler’s Florida East Coast Railway coming to the terminus of the line in Key West to exchange passengers and goods with the P.&O. steamer that will move on to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a great sign at the Grove Motel in Lake Wales. Unfortunately the neon that was once part of the sign is gone, but so glad the tree shaped sign still stands. Next time in Lake Wales look for this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bunny figures all of the Florida history Swampy is telling them deserves a good ol’ American hot dog! #NationalHotDogDay #HotDogDay
During my travels through Tampa a while back, I came across this ‘Lethal Weapon III’ pinball machine. Included in the graphic is the implosion of the 1957 Orlando City Hall, much as shown at the start of the film. In[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This advertisement for the Duval Bargain House if from the July 21st, 1915 edition of the Gulf Coast Breeze newspaper from Crawfordville, that is west of Tallahassee.