Tag: animals
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Swimming with Manatees- Crystal River, Florida
A few years ago a co-worker informed me that you can swim with wild MANATEES in Florida! As you know, if you follow this blog, I adore animal encounters. Learning manatees are an option meant they went to the top of my list for my Florida vacation 2019. Manatees are a native species to Florida,…
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Over Tourism in Wild Places
While we had started the day as one of maybe three or four boats in the canal system doing tours, numbers quickly increased about an hour and a half into the tour. Not only did the additional boats make the canal more crowded, but larger groups of snorkelers, with what seemed like less instruction, swarmed…
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Pets Make It All Worthwhile
My in-laws had to say goodbye to their old cat this week. She had fought a long, hard, fight, and battles that almost took her many times. She was a tough old girl, a sweet old girl, a cat that everyone loved. Regardless of seeing the end years before, and losing many other beloved pets,…
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Adventure of the Week – Omaha Zoo
On my recent adventure to the midwest I had a fun blend of road trip and train journey across 1000 miles, each way, of prairie…..and….prairie. Some may argue it’s plains, but either way you cut it, it ends up being a whole lot of grass, corn, straight rows, and small towns. Not to mention a…
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Wild Animal Sanctuary-Adventure of the week
Maybe you are seeing a theme, why yes I do love animals! This particular week involves Lions and Tigers and Bears…. oh my! And wolves and lynx and bobcat and…. you get the idea. Last weekend I took my Girl Scout troop to the Wild Animal sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colorado. Keenesburg is about…