Wild About Florida: South Florida

Geography has dealt Florida a lavish hand when it comes to natural gifts. The Sunshine State is filled with unusual flora and fauna. South Florida is home to the endangered Florida panthers and the only North America crocodiles. The Everglades swarm with wildlife from birds such as wood storks, ibises, flamingos, roseate spoonbills and dozens…

Tampa Wild Tour

By: Kathleen Walls Tampa is the place to visit in Florida for some really big natural attractions. Wildlife attractions make this a vacation mecca. Want to visit Winter, the star of “A Dolphin’s Tale” and continue on to another great aquarium?  Then there is Busch Gardens, a zoo, and Big Cat Rescue. Go wild and join…

Mesa Verde Country Tour

By: Kathleen Walls One of American’s most intriguing mysteries surrounds the Anasazi culture, now called Ancestral Puebloans, of Mesa Verde. On this tour, we’re going to uncover some answers as we visit both little-known and well-known sites. We all have heard of  the more well know sites in Mesa Verde Country like Cliff Palace and…

Merritt Island Wild Life Refuge Tour

By: Kathleen Walls From the fluctuating climate and the fresh, salt, and estuary waters came thousands of unique species of incredible diversity… a natural world unlike any other place on earth. Of course, being on the Atlantic flyway doesn’t hurt Merrett Island National Wildlife Refuge (MINWR)’s birding reputation a bit. One special bird found there…

Georgia’s Ghostly Getaways

Georgia’s turbulent history has been a natural breeding round for ghost stories and legends. The last of the thirteen original colonies, its heroes and villains have been larger than life characters. From Revolutionary soldiers to Confederate officers, from southern belles to wicked witches, from spirit cats to howling prehistoric dogs, Georgia has some of the…