Genuine Florida Paintings!

05 December 2009 Categories: Critters

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We’re offering paintings by award-winning nationally recognized cartoonist/ illustrator and part of Genuine Florida, Rob Smith, Jr. The paintings are hand drawn and watercolored. The size is 11″ x 14″.

Prices are:

Unframed $35

Framed (No mat) $50

Watch for more paintings coming soon.

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St. Augustine Alligator Farm, circa 1960s

16 June 2009 Categories: A Look Back, Attractions, Critters

Savage reptiles! Knighthood! Dragons! Alligator wrestling! Here’s the Alligator Farm I remember from my youth …footage from the Wolfsonian archives.

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Clermont – Florida Scrub Jay Trail

01 April 2009 Categories: Critters, Movies & TV

Taking a trip into southern Lake County in what seems urban suburbia and amidst the houses sits the Florida Scrub Jay Trail. Learn more by clicking here.

This is the office which originally built for the film ‘Rosewood’.

Gopher tortoise homes are all over the property.

Schools oftern come to the property and help with many chorse. Here is a marker of an elementary school that helped build and maintain the scrub area.

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Critters: Snook and Manatee!

02 April 2008 Categories: Attractions, Critters

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Here Swampy is in the underwater tank that all can go to while visiting Homosassa Springs. Click here to learn more about Homosassa Springs. Above the very rare manatee swims by and below a few snook come by.

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Critters – Bobcat in Englewood!

26 March 2008 Categories: Critters

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Was driving around the Rotunda development in Englewood March 23rd, 2008 and was quite surprised to spot this bobcat wandering around this house. As I snapped photos he trotted off to a nearby wooded spot. A British couple bicycling by said to me that they’ve seen bobcats walk across the Rotunda golf course.

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