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Mount Dora, Florida

February 25, 2010

OVERLOOKING LAKE DORA FROM LAKESIDE INN
Mount Dora is a small town in central Florida on the edge of Lake Dora. As you can see in the map below, Lake Dora is just one of dozens of lakes, large and small, scattered throughout this area adjoining the Ocala National Forest.

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This past weekend was my [...]

Tagged as: antiques, attractions, birds, boats, crafts, events, favorite articles, fishing, Florida, galleries, HISTORIC, lakes, Mount Dora, NATURE

Lake Maggiore Park

January 28, 2009

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WILDLIFE AT LAKE MAGGIORE

In an earlier post on St. Pete’s Lassing Park, I mentioned that I’d be covering more of my favorite city parks. Today’s post has some pictures and information about one of the largest of these parks, Lake Maggiore Park.
This hiking site has some details about Lake Maggiore I [...]

Tagged as: attractions, fishing, Florida, NATURE, parks, St. Petersburg, wildlife

Dubai Long Pier

January 21, 2009

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LONG PIER TACKLE SHACK
I’ve got a love affair with piers. Ever since I was a child visiting my father’s family down in southern Mississippi and fishing off the long pier in Biloxi (a pier destroyed many hurricanes ago), I’m always thrilled by the sensation of walking way out above deep water. [...]

Tagged as: attractions, favorite articles, fishing, Florida, piers, St. Petersburg

N. E. Taylor Boatworks

October 25, 2008

N. E. Taylor Boatworks
In our last post, “Escape to Tahiti,” we began a theme about escaping from the cares of every day life. We continue that today with a look at the N. E. Taylor Boatworks in Cortez, Florida (4628 119th St. W., Cortez, Florida, 34215; 941-794-2802). This is where the big boats go, boats [...]

Tagged as: boats, fish, fishing, Florida, FOOD, seafood

Cortez, an 1880s Florida Fishing Village

October 7, 2008

CORTEZ VILLAGE SIGN

Barrier Islands South of Tampa Bay
Just on the other side of the Skyway Bridge from St. Pete (see map immediately below), is a string of barrier islands stretching from Anna Maria at the northern end all the way down to Venice, Florida, with just a short break at Lido Key.
Toward the north end [...]

Tagged as: ACTIVITIES, boats, fishing, Florida, FOOD, HISTORIC, restaurants