Missing your manatee friends? They miss you too! The Manatee Viewing Center is scheduled to reopen in November. In the meantime, you can gear up with manatee merch at our online store. Every dollar you spend helps the center facilitate crucial manatee research and rescue efforts. Shipping is handled by the MacDonald Training Center, which employs and trains developmentally disabled adults. So you can feel extra good as you decide…
Of all the many(tee) reasons 6 million people have come to our free Manatee Viewing Center in Apollo Beach, here are some more
If everyone in Wisconsin came to Tampa Electric’s free Manatee Viewing Center and brought a few friends, what would they say? Maybe something like: “Wow! You mean this place is free?! It’s incredible! And there’s way more than manatees!” Since 1986, 6 million people – about equal to the entire population of Wisconsin – have experienced free Florida beauty at its finest at our Manatee Viewing Center. On Feb. 22,…
Hey manatees, come on in – the water’s fine!
Deliveries don’t get much more special than this: We’re talking about a day in December when three small moving trucks showed up at the doorstep of Tampa Electric’s Manatee Viewing Center, joined by an eager group of people in water shoes. The trucks’ rear doors rattled open and inside each was a large, passive creature with gray skin and scars on its body. They were doing just fine – great, in fact. The animals’ handlers doused them continuously with water.…
Habitat trail at the Manatee Viewing Center
The trail in environmental stewardship that the Manatee Viewing Center has blazed since 1986 is one that you can enjoy at ground-level. November 1 marks the opening of the center’s coastal habitat trail, a mulched path that winds eight-tenths of a mile through saltern, coastal high marsh and coastal strand habitats. Like the MVC, it’s free to the public and showcases a variety of plant and animal life. And like…
Turn cold weather into gold at Tampa Electric’s Manatee Viewing Center
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…