When you consider the whole package of what Tampa Electric’s Manatee Viewing Center offers – free parking and admission at an incredible local attraction that immerses you in natural Florida – is there a better place to be cold in the Tampa Bay area? We could ask the manatees that are here by the dozens, frolicking in the clean, warm-water discharge canal of Big Bend Power Station that protects them…
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LEEF it to the environmental experts to help grow the profile of the Florida Conservation and Technology Center
It was a conference in which attendees relished the chance to bug each other – bug as in insects – and nobody minded in the slightest. In fact, the Spring 2017 Mini-Conference of the League of Environmental Educators in Florida (LEEF) at the Florida Conservation and Technology Center (FCTC) proved to be a big success, both for an organization whose commitment to the environment aligns with TECO’s and for FCTC…
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Talk about the PERFECT day for a party at Tampa Electric’s Manatee Viewing Center…!
Cold weather (for Florida) rarely feels this warm – but that might just sum up the 30th anniversary/5 millionth visitor celebration at Tampa Electric’s Manatee Viewing Center on March 16. Packed crowds of all ages marveled at manatees frolicking and enjoying outstanding atmosphere all their own in Big Bend Power Station’s clean, warm water discharge canal. Families strolled along the boardwalks, children enjoyed games, nearly everyone wore beads handed out…
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Ten reasons (among many) why you should come to the 30th anniversary/5 millionth visitor celebration at Tampa Electric’s Manatee Viewing Center on Thursday, March 16
If it’s in your nature to enjoy yourself, we humbly suggest you enjoy yourself in our nature – Tampa Electric’s Manatee Viewing Center – this Thursday, March 16. We’re celebrating our 30th season as a showcase of free, fun, environmental education, along with the fact that we’ve welcomed more than 5 million visitors since we opened in 1986. And we’d love to see you there. Below are 10 reasons that…
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It was a good day for Icecube the manatee
It’s possible that no one told Icecube the manatee that the 30th anniversary/5 millionth-visitor celebration at Tampa Electric’s Manatee Viewing Center isn’t until March 16. Then again, when you’re all healed up and ready to get straight outta manatee rehab hospital, why wait? That was the scene March 6 as Icecube took his place among the many honored guests at the center over the years who have arrived by U-Haul truck…
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