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July 2013 Blog Posts (3)

Adventure Outpost this weekend...

Hello "wanna go" lunatics,

We're coming up on a full moon which means different things to different paddlers in Florida. For those of you who enjoy watching interesting critters doing interesting things, the July full moon offers an excellent chance to observe horseshoe crabs engaged in their spring/summer mating routine. This Saturday's (7/20) Cedar Keys paddle was specifically timed to coincide with a high tide that should be good for seeing this maritime passion play that has been… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on July 18, 2013 at 8:42am — No Comments

Chickens Increasingly Abandoned by Hipster Farmers

The number of chickens abandoned at animal shelters by urban farmers is growing at an alarming rate.

Although some folks were initially thrilled with the idea of raising their own chickens, a large number of people quickly became disillusioned. The amount of upkeep required to keep the animals healthy and…

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Added by Michael Levin on July 18, 2013 at 7:59am — 4 Comments

Florida's Springs: Our Dying Canaries

It’s a tribute to cave divers like the late Wes Skiles that photos of people swimming in the Floridan Aquifer have become common-place. In places like the amazing Blue Path exhibit now showing in the Florida Museum of Natural History, we see pictures of divers swimming through the most serene settings imaginable—suspended in dream worlds of icy-blue water and cream-colored limestone; moving through grand, underwater passages; illuminated by…

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Added by Lars Andersen on July 3, 2013 at 3:54pm — No Comments