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Join the Excitement … Manatees take Refuge for Warmth at Manatee Lagoon!

11/21/2016

Discover all the excitement as Florida manatees take refuge for warmth at Manatee Lagoon in Riviera Beach, Florida! Admission is free. November is Manatee Awareness Month! Photo – Robert Scott Thayer Greetings and great news for you! Florida manatees are now navigating...

TECO’s Manatee Viewing Center Opens for its 30th Season!

11/15/2016

The Tampa Electric’s Manatee Viewing Center is open with hundreds of thousands of visitors expected during its 30th season now through April 15th. Admission is free. November is Manatee Awareness Month! Photo Courtesy – Tampa Electric Greetings! I have some awesome news...

Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo Petitions for a Manatee Emoji!

11/08/2016

Tampa, Florida’s Lowry Park Zoo is petitioning the Unicode Consortium for creation and registration of a manatee emoji. November is Manatee Awareness Month! Photo Courtesy – Lowry Park Zoo/Change.org Greetings! Here’s some great news for you … Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo is...

November is Manatee Awareness Month!

11/02/2016

November is Manatee Awareness Month! The Manatee is Florida’s official state marine mammal. Photo – Courtesy David Schrichte Greetings! I have some great news for you … November is Manatee Awareness Month! We manatees are endangered marine mammals. We are...

NASA Says,“2016 will be Hottest Year on Record!”

10/24/2016

Source: Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) Greetings! Here’s some more sobering news just released from NASA. The space agency says, “2016 is the hottest year on record!” And it’s only October! We manatees are warm-blooded, and enjoy water temperatures above 68...

The Extraordinary Florida Manatee!

10/13/2016

A Florida manatee mom escorting her calf at Blue Spring State Park in Orange City, Florida. Greetings! I thought I’d recap some really cool and interesting facts about us Florida manatees in this blog. As some of you may already know yours...

Climate Change Creates “Ghost Forests” Haunting Mid-Atlantic Coast!

10/05/2016

Expanding “Ghost Forests” are now haunting the entire coastline of the mid-Atlantic region because of rising sea levels caused by climate change. Greetings! Sure … I know Halloween is less than 3 weeks away, but expanding ghost forests in the mid-Atlantic...

Florida Manatee Visiting Cape Cod – Rescued!

09/27/2016

Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, Connecticut is preparing the Florida Manatee who recently visited Cape Cod this summer for its southward journey home. Greetings and great news! My Florida manatee buddy who has been visiting Cape Cod this past summer has been...

Climate Change Unleashes Second Strongest Summer Melt of Arctic Sea Ice!

09/20/2016

The 2016 Arctic sea ice summertime minimum shown here was reached on September 10th. This is actually 911,000 square miles below the 1981-2010 average minimum of sea ice, which is shown by the gold line. Credits: NASA Goddard’s Scientific Visualization Studio/C. Starr...

Take a Walk on Cape Cod’s Wild Side!

09/14/2016

Nobska Point Lighthouse at Woods Hole in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Since the Cape is located some 40 miles out into the Atlantic Ocean, it has one of the best views on ocean life of any place on the East Coast! Greetings! Did...