Kobee Manatee: A Wild Weather Adventure

Discover Extraordinary Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs State Park!

01/12/2024

A warm greetings to you! And Happy New Year! I can’t think of a better way to start out a new 2024 blog then to talk about the abundance of manatees making their winter home at Homosassa Springs State Park. Manatees are warm-blooded...

Kobee Manatee’s History

11/30/2022

Greetings! Here’s something I thought you might find interesting. I’d like to talk about the background of the award-winning Kobee Manatee® Children’s Educational Picture Book series. I’ve been writing and working on the series for the past 12 years and I’d like to show...

Manatee Facts – Knowledge Challenge 5

12/04/2019

Greetings! Here is the fifth installment of awesome manatee facts for you. It’s worth repeating that we manatees are very large marine mammals with two flippers and a body tapering down to a paddle-shaped tail. Okay, it’s time to test your manatee...

Kobee Manatee® Book 1 & Book 2 Recently Released in Mainland China!

06/18/2019

Greetings! Is it true that Kobee Manatee® (yours truly) just learned mandarin? You would be correct with that! Here’s the breaking news… …Book 1, Kobee Manatee®: Heading Home to Florida and Book 2, Kobee Manatee®: A Wild Weather Adventure have secured translation rights pertaining to Chinese simplified characters language...

Did “Climate Change” Cause Back-to-Back Major Hurricanes Harvey and Irma?

09/14/2017

Residents take a look at the devastation on a coastal house in Vilano Beach, Florida from Hurricane Irma. Photo Courtesy: REUTERS/Chris Wattie Greetings! It’s been extremely difficult these past couple of weeks, as nature unleashed her wrath in Houston, Texas, the Caribbean,...

Manatee Trivia (Part 4)!

05/03/2017

The subspecies of the West Indian Manatee includes the Florida Manatee and the Antillean Manatee. Greetings! OK – let’s continue manatee trivia with my fourth installment for you. It’s worth repeating that we manatees are very large marine mammals with two flippers...

Washburn the Manatee swims same Ocean Routes and Destinations as Kobee Manatee!

12/08/2016

Washburn the manatee swam from Florida up to Massachusetts this past summer. She was then rescued in Cape Cod, Massachusetts and flown to Florida for rehabilitation. Washburn was released in the Atlantic Ocean a few weeks ago and was recently spotted in...