Must Ask Rides

Manatee Cove Park regularly has manatees hanging out. Mullet jump around, too. It's a good place to see mangroves' roots reaching. As a premiere bull shark estuary, the Indian River Lagoon hosts up to 6ft bull sharks which may be seen as well. Manatees generally make their presence known with their nostrils, though during days with weather like on Valentine's Day, they group up and get rowdy. There's a boat landing and the site has commercial kayak tours for daytime fauna and nightime bioluminecent dino-flashlights (dinoflagellates) 🦕🔦

this launch complex was built in 1959 as a silo and pad test site for Minuteman ICBM missiles from 1961-1970; some debris from Challenger is buried in the silo here and in the silo at pad 31.
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Best botanical garden in Georgia per aperture!! This old Bland Farm, where in the early 1980s James in his 70s introduced me to his Uncle Dan in his 90s and we picked pears, looked at arrowheads, talked shop and where i got married in the 00s, is expertly and excellently curated and is showcase for early education inspiring a love of nature which inspires a love of learning. As foreign languages are an imprint of ecological experiences, I've taught those as a window to the language of nature seen and observed and learned to be loved in gardens such as this one. The Bland family legacy continues through new gardeneers, bioneers, and ecologists. #Permaculture
#UrbanFarming #SyntropicForestry
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the Maritime Hammock Sanctuary holds such a diverse layout of landscapes. there is an open-sand gopher tortoise playground amidst a flower garden of fiery red sage, periwinkles, and beach sunflowers. there are green bees. there is a hardwoods hammock with bunnies, squirrels, and butterflies. there are several mangroves with crabs, white and blue, great land and ghost beach. there are several muddy areas, each a little different, some with frogs or lizards or earthworms, each muddier than the last. the ponds and sloughs have (long-necked) soft-shelled turtles, gators, and fish and the lagoon has dolphin passers-by and maybe manatees. a lot to see if your lucky in such a small parcel, really. all kinds of birds. and, THE Great Blue Land Crab!!!

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