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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(Sara)solo and in groups, visitors of all kinds love TECO’s commitment to the environment
Among the VIPs who have come to the Manatee Viewing Center and the adjacent Florida Conservation and Technology Center over the past week, one of them feels so comfortable there he’s going to stay. No, he’s not among the Hillsborough County Commissioners who visited the Suncoast Youth Conservation Center (SYCC) at the Florida Conservation and Technology Center (FCTC) on Jan. 26. Commissioners Sandra Murman, Stacy White and Pat Kemp and…
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Humming a new tune at Tampa Electric’s Manatee Viewing Center: “Take me out to the rays tank…”
The manatees at Tampa Electric’s world-famous Manatee Viewing Center have some new teammates when it comes to the “inside baseball” successes of environmental stewardship. Ladies and gentlemen, meet your Tampa Bay Rays. We’re not talking about Evan Longoria, Chris Archer, Alex Colome and other names you might recognize. These are the same exact rays – as in marine creatures – that bring fanciful atmosphere to Tropicana Field. And now, for…
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