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Crawfish Festival in Woodbine, Georgia

Southeast Georgia is home to a host of food festivals from the Shrimp & Grits festival on Jekyll Island to the Catfish Festival in Kingsland, Georgia but probably the most unique food festival is the Crawfish Festival in Woodbine, Georgia. Held each year on the last weekend in April, this festival features the lowly crawfish[…]

Blessing of the Fleet in Darien, Georgia

The Blessing of the Fleet is a three-day festival in Darien, Georgia each Spring that begins on a Friday evening with live entertainment and ends on Sunday with a blessing and sprinkling with holy water of the area’s fleet of Shrimp Boats. I decided to attend this event on the final day, Sunday, in order[…]

Easter Egg Stroll on Jekyll Island, Georgia

I awoke early on the day before Easter with just one thought on my mind: I’ve got to buy my daughter an Easter basket! Being three years old she has really started getting into the excitement of the holidays and today was extra special. Today was the annual Easter Egg Stroll on beautiful Jekyll Island,[…]

Christmas in Savannah

Watch our video slideshow of photos taken during Christmas 2011 in Savannah, Georgia. If you would like to create a video slideshow of your own photos click here. There is never a bad time to visit Savannah, Georgia but December offers the best bang for the buck. First, unlike the hot, muggy summers, December in Savannah[…]

Crooked River State Park

This vista over the beautiful salt marsh is just one of the surprises awaiting you at Crooked River State Park in St. Marys, Georgia. Crooked River State Park, located in St. Mary’s, Georgia, is a nature lover’s paradise and the perfect place to spend a few hours walking. Home to a variety of diverse habitats[…]

Native American Heritage in Tallahasse, Florida

Tallahassee, Florida is home to many locations that preserve the area’s rich Native American Heritage. I decided to take a road trip to visit several of these sites including the Letchworth-Love Mounds Archaeological State Park, Mission San Luis State Historic Site, Florida State Museum, and the Lake Jackson Archaeological Park. Letchworth-Love Mounds Park My first[…]

Lake Alice

Lake Alice, located on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, is a nature lover’s paradise and the perfect place to spend a few hours walking. Home to a variety of wildlife including alligators and a colony of 60,000 bats that take flight every evening at sunset.

Florida Museum of Natural History

Watch our video slideshow of photos taken at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville, Florida. If you would like to create a video slideshow of your own photos click here. Giant elephants used to live in Florida. That’s one of the first things you learn upon entering the Florida Museum of Natural History[…]

Silver Springs

Silver Springs in Ocala, Florida is marketed as “Nature’s Theme Park” and it definitely lives up to its slogan. Filled with wild animal exhibits and glass-bottomed boat rides over some of Florida’s most amazing crystal-clear springs, a day in this park brings you much closer to “wild” Florida than any other park in the[…]

Poe Springs & Rum Island

Poe Springs, located in High Springs, Florida near Gainesville, is a county park and natural wonder that serves as the gateway to other natural wonders such as Lilly Springs and Rum Island Springs all reachable by canoe which you can rent from the park. Home to a great variety of wildlife and plant life, you’ll definitely[…]

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