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16 Apr 20208:40 AM
Learn how to create your own face mask some #OutpostAttitude flare. As the CDC is now recommending wearing a cloth face mask in public settings where other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain (e.g., grocery stores and pharmacies)Watch our DIY video on how to make your own Guy Harvey face mask 😷using your upcycled t-shirts!
If you have an old Guy Harvey shirt the crew at the Guy Harvey Outpost Resorts Corporate office and Camp Mack, a Guy Harvey Lodge, Marina & RV Resort are ready to receive your shirts and sew them into face masks to be donated to local charitable organizations. Together we can make a positive impact on our communities and do our part to keep our families, friends and health care workers safe!
Please mail your donations to either:
1. Attn: Guy Harvey Face Mask
Guy Harvey Outpost, LTD.
1500 West Cypress Creek Road
Suite 108
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
Or
2. Attn: Guy Harvey Face Mask
Camp Mack, a Guy Harvey Lodge, Marina & RV Resort
14900 Camp Mack Rd.
Lake Wales, FL 33898
*Please note: These cloth face masks (like the one shown in the photo below) are not medical grade, surgical masks or have N-95 respirators.
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Please mail your donations to either:
1. Attn: Guy Harvey Face Mask
Guy Harvey Outpost, LTD.
1500 West Cypress Creek Road
Suite 108
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
Or
2. Attn: Guy Harvey Face Mask
Camp Mack, a Guy Harvey Lodge, Marina & RV Resort
14900 Camp Mack Rd.
Lake Wales, FL 33898
*Please note: These cloth face masks (like the one shown in the photo below) are not medical grade, surgical masks or have N-95 respirators.
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![](mailto:?subject=Cuba Un-canned: See It With the Locals&body=Here are some of the locals you will meet during <a href="http://www.guyharveyoutpost.com/">Guy Harvey Outpost's</a> guided people-to-people expedition to Cuba December 13-18:
--The son of Fidel Castro's official photographer;
--the director of the Cuba's Masonic museum;
--a rural tobacco farmer;
--a mixologist who will teach you how to make the perfect Mojito.
And the locales you will visit will combine mainstream stops (Floridita --creator of the daiquiri-- and Museo de la Revolucion, stone walls with 1950s bullet holes) with way un-trodden destinations (Cueva El Palmarito --the largest cave system in Latin America, and a fishing cooperative in Cojimar, where Ernest Hemingway's captain spent most of his life).
Your hosts will be Justin White-- operator of <a href="https://www.docfordscubaexpeditions.com/">Doc Ford's Cuba Expeditions</a> and nephew of best-selling novelist Randy Wayne White--and Sports Illustrated photographer Ron Modra.
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"The people we are going to meet are incredible-- interesting, intelligent, diverse age groups," White said. "You'll see the monumental places but the targeted people and events introduce you to real people living their daily lives. The most valuable experience you can have is to be with the people and ask them questions. There are no airs put on."
With new U.S.-to-Cuba travel restrictions set to take effect in mid-September, White is taking special care to stay on the right side of the law: staying only in private lodgings, taking meals in private restaurants; interacting one-on-one with Cuban people; and travelling in a 12-member group.
"We will abide by all the policies and restrictions put in place," White said. "We focus on people-to-people exchanges."
The six-day, five-night itinerary is packed with authentic experiences: poring over photo albums with Raul Corrales, whose father shot reams of images of late Cuban leader Fidel Castro and his friend author Ernest Hemingway; walking the docks at Cojimar, the small fishing village where Hemingway's "Old Man and the Sea" was set and where the author's captain Gregorio Fuentes lived to be 104; visiting Finca Vijia where Hemingway's boat, Pilar, still sits; touring a tobacco farm and coffee plantation; and hiking to a huge cave in the countryside. It also hits some of the typical tourist spots such as the Tropicana nightclub and Old Havana. And there will be multiple opportunities to ogle (and photograph) all the old cars, with Modra coaching on the finer points of capturing images.
If you <a href="https://guyharveyoutpost.com/expeditions/cuba/">book your expedition</a> by Aug. 31, you'll receive free airfare from Fort Lauderdale to Havana. For more information, visit <a href="https://www.guyharveyoutpost.com">www.guyharveyoutpost.com</a> or call the Outpost Travel Desk at 800-513-5257. https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/cuba-un-canned-see-it-with-the-locals/){kind=link}
![](mailto:?subject=Procuring Haute Cuisine by Airboat on Lake Okeechobee&body=<a href="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/p1010117.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2987 alignleft" src="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/p1010117.jpg?w=300" alt="P1010117" width="300" height="225" /></a>by Sue Cocking, Guy Harvey Outpost staff writer
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Those delicately-flavored sautéed frog legs you pay $25 and up for in South Florida restaurants do not come from amphibian farms somewhere in the Far East. Unlike some fish sold in U.S. markets and eateries which is farmed overseas, this freshwater delicacy likely is harvested by moonlighting cowboys, construction workers and fishing guides riding around on airboats at night on Lake Okeechobee or the Everglades.
While most do it for the money--(they get between $7 and $8 per pound of dressed frog legs)--some do it for fun, dinner, and charters.
Captain Bobby Stafford of Okeechobee earns his living by guiding locals and out-of-towners on bass fishing, gator or duck hunting, and frog gigging expeditions on the Big O. Between bookings, he sometimes goes out to harvest enough frogs for dinner.
"It's a fun thing to do, plus you get to bring home good table fare," he said. "There's a challenge to it."
On a recent weekday night, Stafford and I embarked on his newly-refurbished,14-foot airboat at Okee-Tantie on the big lake's north end, which is slated to become a Guy Harvey Outpost RV Resort and Marina in 2017. An early-evening downpour had ended just before dark and we could hear the croaks, chirps, and burps of our quarry as soon as we hit the lake.
However, Stafford was a little uncertain about our dinner prospects because of a steep rise in water levels in the previous two weeks.
"Their whole habitat is getting readjusted to the high water," he said. "But I like frogging after the rain. I think the frogs climb up higher."
Wearing a bright headlamp, Stafford cruised the cattail marsh on the edge of the lake with his left hand on the tiller and his right holding a ten-foot-long, four-pronged gig like a pool cue. It's nearly impossible to spot a frog in tall cattails, so Stafford stuck to shallow sloughs coated with lily pads where the animals often sit out in the open. All that vegetation distracts the eye, but the guide knew what to look for.
"You have to look right in the light. Sometimes you see their yellow eyeball from a ways off. Sometimes you see the white of their throat," he explained.
Sweeping the swamp with his light, Stafford pulled back on the tiller to slow down and gigged a shiny, greenish-brown frog perched on a pad. He put his quarry in a fiberglass chute attached to a mesh catch bag and kept motoring.
"You're trying to hit them and time it just right," he said. "I aim for the head."
He stuck about a dozen more and missed a couple that dived under the lily pads at the airboat's approach. Every now and then his headlamp beam would catch a pair of ruby orbs-- a gator patrolling the marsh.
"When we find the frogs thick, there will be a lot of baby gators in there eating them," Stafford said.
But the frogs and gators seemed to be spaced pretty far apart; no mother lode as in previous weeks when water levels were lower. And Stafford passed up a few frogs that were too small to be worth cleaning.
On a normal four-hour recreational gigging trip, he said, he and guests could expect to harvest about 15 to 20 pounds of frog legs. Commercial froggers keeping at it all night might score as much as 100 pounds. Nearing midnight, after about 2 1/2 hours of hunting, Stafford had taken about 30 frogs, or three to five pounds of legs. The catch was still plenty for me, him, his wife and two sons served battered and deep-fried or sautéed in garlic and butter.
Purveyors of fine foods may dream up all sorts of frog leg dishes and wine pairings targeted to the palate of the sophisticated gourmand. But diners should remember that some guy in an airboat first had to find and stick that delectable entree and then dress it to make it presentable.
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Sue Cocking chronicles the Guy Harvey Outpost travel and adventure experience in regular blog posts on GuyHarveyOutpostNews.com/. For 21 years, Cocking covered the full spectrum of outdoors adventure opportunities in South Florida and beyond for the Miami Herald, including fishing, diving, hunting, paddling camping, sailing and powerboat racing. She is a certified scuba diver and holder of an IGFA women's world fly fishing record for a 29-pound permit.
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![](mailto:?subject=Lassoing Tigers by the Tail&body=<a href="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/1934055_121444225965_813001_n1.jpg"><img class=" size-medium wp-image-2800 alignleft" src="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/1934055_121444225965_813001_n1.jpg?w=267" alt="1934055_121444225965_813001_n" width="267" height="300" /></a>By Sue Cocking | <a href="http://www.guyharveyoutpost.com" target="_blank">Guy Harvey Outpost</a>
It looked more like the marine version of a rodeo than a scientific expedition in the clear, shallow waters of Tiger Beach off West End, Grand Bahama Island in the spring of 2009. Dr. Guy Harvey-- renowned marine artist, scientist, conservationist and cinematographer--and a handful of colleagues were trying to capture a 9 1/2 -foot tiger shark-- one of several for which the shoal was named-- so they could implant it with an acoustic transmitter tag. The tag emits a signature beep that is picked up by an underwater receiver installed in the area. Whenever a tagged shark passes within 300-500 meters of the receiver, it stores the signal to be downloaded onto a computer. So far, the shark had successfully eluded the scientists, but they weren't giving up.
Not nearly as high-tech as today's satellite tracking tags, which can follow a shark's moment-by-moment travel for up to several years, acoustic tags are nonetheless useful, showing when and how often an animal uses a specific area. They are also a lot cheaper than the $3,500 satellite tag.
"We should tag every one of these animals to see where they go," Harvey said. "The ultimate would be to have the species protected or--if not-- this area of the Bahama Bank could be designated no shark fishing. This is the beginning of what will hopefully be a 20-year study where we involve the Bahamian government, researchers from various institutions, dive operators."
Eventually, Harvey-- along with Dr. Mahmood Shivji, professor and director of Nova Southeastern University's Guy Harvey Research Institute and their fellow researchers--managed to lasso their target underwater, bring it to the dive platform of their boat and implant the tag in its belly. It swam away smartly.
Fast-forward six years to 2015 and you'll find that Harvey's tiger shark research and conservation efforts have reaped a handsome return. Expanding well beyond the Bahamas, recent long-term satellite tagging data reported in the June 9 issue of the journal Scientific Reports details previously unknown migration patterns covering thousands of miles between completely different ecosystems.
The study-- led by Nova Southeastern University scientists James Lea, Brad Wetherbee and Shivji and co-authored by Harvey-- found that tigers tagged in Bermuda travelled more than 7,500 kilometers round-trip between the open waters of the mid-North Atlantic and the coral reefs of the Bahamas and Caribbean each year. Like snowbirds, the male sharks spent winters in warm waters, headed as far north as Connecticut in summer, then returned to the same favorite winter hang-outs in the tropics.
One shark named Harry Lindo covered the longest tracked distance--27,000 miles-- ever documented for a tiger.
For Harvey, Shivji and the other scientists, the findings have profound implications for tiger shark conservation. The animals, listed as near-threatened by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, are protected from harvest in Bahamian and Florida waters. But as a target in the lucrative shark fin soup trade, they don't enjoy the same safe haven in other waters where they travel.
Said Harvey: "Understanding how these animals use the oceans is the first step toward effective conservation. Protecting migratory species is a great challenge because they can be found in such a wide area. Protecting the areas where animals such as tiger sharks spend the most time is a tractable goal once those areas have been identified."
To track the movement of the tiger sharks tagged by the Guy Harvey Research Institute, visit the <a href="http://www.nova.edu/ocean/ghri/tracking/" target="_blank">GHRI shark tracking web site</a>. https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/lassoing-tigers-by-the-tail-2/){kind=link}
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