Tags: Florida, florida keys, Guy Harvey, Guy Harvey Outpost, lobster, lobster season
Divers: start rehearsing your cough-and-call routine. You will need to execute a flawless performance to avoid getting fired for skipping work July 26 and 27– Florida’s largest undeclared …
Tags: Alabama, Destin, Florida, FWC, Guy Harvey, Guy Harvey Outpost, red snapper
[Destin, FL.–] Lowering my live threadfin herring bait more than 115 feet to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, I was really hoping to hook a red snapper instead of an amberjack. For one thing, …
Tags: Florida, Guy Harvey, Guy Harvey Outpost, mermaids, Weeki Wachee
Victoria has longed to be a mermaid for her entire 30 years. Her favorite childhood movies were “The Little Mermaid” and “Splash”. But life intervened; she joined the U.S. Army, …
Tags: Everglades, Florida, Guy Harvey, Guy Harvey Outpost, Mac Stone, Rainbow River
[Dunnellon, FL.–] Mac Stone is kicking across the Rainbow River against the strong current as fast as he can, and even though he is carrying a bulky underwater camera with two protruding …
Tags: Cortez, Florida, Guy Harvey, Guy Harvey Outpost, snook
It was nearly sunset and the tide was starting to dwindle in the “Kitchen”– a generally fish-rich grass flat just off the small village of Cortez in northern Sarasota Bay. Captain Scott …
Tags: Everglades, Florida, Guy Harvey, Guy Harvey Outpost, pythons, Swamp Apes
Tom Rahill, Barry Offenburger and I are scrambling over piles of limestone boulders and through thickets of Brazilian pepper and tangles of vines that stop us in our tracks and try to trip us. It’s …
Tags: bird watching, Florida, Guy Harvey, Guy Harvey Outpost, Tarpon Springs, zip lines
Standing on a wooden treetop platform about 25 feet high, I am about to zip across the forest on a thin metal cable. Secure in my climbing harness and tethered to the tree by a double tweezle clip system, …
Tags: Cedar Key, Florida, Florida's Nature Coast, Guy Harvey, Guy Harvey Outpost, kayaking, Shell Mound
Art galleries, museums, a community organic garden, nearshore clam farms– all are endemic to Cedar Key– a small island community on Florida’s Gulf Coast about halfway between Tampa and …
Tags: Apalachee Bay, Florida, Guy Harvey, Guy Harvey Oupost, paddling, Slave Canal, Wacissa
By Sue Cocking, Guy Harvey Outpost Travel Journalist scocking@guyharveyoutpost.com About 160 years ago, slave laborers braved swarms of mosquitoes and hordes of gators and venomous snakes to dig a three-mile-long …
Tags: Florida, Guy Harvey, Guy Harvey Outpost, The Everglades, The Everglades Coalition
Borrowing from the immortal lyrics of country music’s Jerry Reed in the theme song of the 1977 film “Smoky and the Bandit”, Everglades restoration “has a long way to go and a short time to get …
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