Martin Luther King, Jr. Park in Winter Park, FL is a beautiful 23-acres and offers a large playground, stocked bass fishing, sports fields, exercise machines, pavilion, and plenty of walkways, sunshine, shade and benches.
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Mead Botanical Garden
Mead Botanical Garden is located in Winter Park, FL just north east of the Orlando Science Center. It is 48-acres of park – forest, gardens, ampitheaters, paths, ponds, bridges, etc. with plenty of birds, insects, and reptiles to find. Here is a thorough history timeline of the gardens. It is open 7 days a week,…
Bok Tower Gardens
Bok Tower Gardens is located near Lake Wales, FL, about an hour drive southwest of Orlando. The “Singing Tower” itself is an 8-story, 205-foot, beautifully designed and ornately tiled Gothic Revival structure at the top of a very large hill (for Florida). It is called the Singing Tower because it houses one of the few…
Thankful for Lake Eola
Walking around Lake Eola, downtown Orlando, FL on Thanksgiving, 2016
Fishing Mosquito Lagoon
Today I took my father-in-law fishing at Mosquito Lagoon (more info), part of Canaveral National Seashore. I chartered Captain Don Hutson, recommended by a friend, and I couldn’t have picked a better man! He is absolutely the greatest fisherman I have ever met in my life, and is probably one of the best in the…