June 14th, 2010
Grab your sunglasses and beach blanket and plan your trip to Florida now because nobody celebrates our nation’s birthday like we do in the Sunshine State. From the Panhandle to the Florida Keys and everywhere in between cities and towns will be celebrating with a day of family fun topped off with fabulous fireworks displays. Check out these events to find one near you.
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June 11th, 2010
Tampa, FL – Think green and save some too while going on an adventure in your own backyard with a “Summer Family Fun Pass” to Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo. The Summer Family Fun Pass includes unlimited daytime admission to the Zoo June 1-August 31, 2010 with unlimited mechanical rides for $75 for a family of four. Specifically, the pass covers up to two adults/seniors and two dependents (ages 3-17) in the household; additional family members in the household are $20 per person.
The Summer Family Fun Pass is value-priced, set at the same price as Zoo one-day admission for a family of four (two adults/two children), and priced well below the cost of one day admission plus individual ride wristbands for all guests. Parking at the Zoo is free.
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June 6th, 2010
Ride Coasters in the Dark, Stay for an Awesome Night-Time Finale
Tampa, FL – Busch Gardens amps up the fun in 2010 during Summer Nights with MORE contemporary entertainment, MORE special effects and MORE reasons to stay and play each night from June 11 through Aug. 15. This year, the rides are even wilder and, each night, in Tampa, Busch Gardens goes out with a big, rock-style bang when Kinetix explodes onto the stage in Gwazi Park at 9 p.m.
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June 6th, 2010
Orlando, FL – The $9.99 Florida Resident Special is back at Gatorland for a limited time only! In celebration of the theme parks 60th anniversary, Gatorland has lowered the admission price for Florida Residents to just $9.99 for adults and children from May 29, 2010- September 6, 2010. That’s a savings to you of over Sixty Percent!
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June 4th, 2010
Lake Buena Vista, FL – Summer nights at Walt Disney World Resort will enchant theme park guests when glittering light magic, high adventure, dance fever, thrills and chills set the after-dark scene. From June 6 through Aug. 14, “Summer Nightastic!” lights up the entertainment experience at the Orlando Attraction with a megawatt parade, a fireworks extravaganza, a rockin’ dance party, concerts and other surprises.
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June 2nd, 2010
Navarre Beach, FL – Construction on the new 1,545-foot fishing pier on Navarre Beach, the longest in the state, is essentially complete and a grand opening celebration has been scheduled for 9 a.m. Saturday. Afterward, Santa Rosa County will suspend admission fees to the pier for the weekend to allow the public to walk along or fish from the new pier for free. The newest Florida pier will be open from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week. It will normally cost $1 a day to walk on the pier, and adults will pay $7 a day to fish; weekly and annual passes are available.
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June 1st, 2010
Orlando, FL – Visit Universal CityWalk in June for Red Bull Manny Mania and some of Florida’s most talented skateboarders as they compete for a shot at global skateboarding fame. Orlando CityWalk is an eclectic collection of themed restaurants, nightclubs, specialty shops and a 20-screen movie theatre, Universal CityWalk is Orlando’s hottest spot for entertainment, boasting the biggest names in live music, dining, dancing, movies and more.
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May 25th, 2010
Panama City, FL – Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport (ECP), the first commercial international airport to be built in the US in past 15 years, began operations Sunday, May 23. Two airlines will offer travelers to Panama City Beach and other Panhandle beaches easy access. Southwest Airlines will have eight daily nonstop flights, serving Baltimore/Washington, Houston, Nashville and Orlando, and Delta Airlines will have 11 daily nonstop flights serving Atlanta and Memphis.
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May 19th, 2010
Key West, Florida Keys – U.S. Coast Guard Key West Sector Captain Pat DeQuattro confirmed Wednesday morning that tests on tar balls found Monday and Tuesday on Key West’s Fort Zachary Taylor State Park beach and other areas of the Lower Keys are not from the Transocean/BP oil spill in the northern Gulf of Mexico.
“The results of those tests conclusively show that the tar balls collected from Florida Keys beaches do not match the type of oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico,” according to a Coast Guard-issued news release. “The source of the tar balls remains unknown at this time.”
A sampling of tar balls discovered on beaches at Fort Zachary Taylor State Park, Smathers Beach in Key West, Big Pine Key, Fla., and Loggerhead Key in the Dry Tortugas National Park, Fla. were flown by a Coast Guard HU-25 Falcon jet based in Miami to New London, Conn., Tuesday for testing and analysis.
On Tuesday, much of the media reporting concluded that the tar balls were from the Gulf oil spill, despite the fact that the Coast Guard had not confirmed their source.
It is not unusual to find tar balls in Keys waters or on area beaches. The Keys are located along a busy commercial shipping route, with some 8,000 vessels passing by annually, and commercial vessels sometimes discharge bilge water that contains oil. Tar balls can drift into Keys waters from other areas, not just the northern Gulf region.
Meanwhile, as of late Tuesday satellite imagery indicated the bulk of the oil remains dozens of miles away from the Loop Current, but a tendril of light oil appears to have been transported within close proximity to the current. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is conducting aerial observations to ascertain whether the oil actually has entered the Loop Current.
In the time it would take for oil to travel to the vicinity of the Loop Current, it would be highly weathered and the natural processes of evaporation and dispersion would reduce the oil volume significantly, NOAA said.
The Florida Keys tourism council is updating its oil spill website page daily at www.fla-keys.com.
More info about how the oil spill is affecting Florida beaches.
May 15th, 2010
Star Wars Weekends
Each Friday-Sunday May 21-June 13, 2010 |
Orlando, FL – “The Force” returns to Walt Disney World Resort as Disney’s Hollywood Studios becomes “Star Wars Central” for guests of all ages during the annual sci-fi fan-fest.
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