Going to Florida next week.

Calling @Marilynne [MENTION=10762]Kevin H[/MENTION] @richnmib .

The Mrs and I are heading down there next week, and will be there for a few days. Are there other places like the CBBR nearby or would that be the best one to re-visit?

Marilynne said:

Lots of places in Palm Beach County Pete. Wakodahatchee Wetlands, my fav, Green Cay Wetlands and Loxahatchee Wildlife Refuge are my three within cycling range. Never been to Peaceful Waters or Busch Wildlife Sanctuary.

Edit: None of these are the size of CBBR. You can do two in one day, maybe all three. I think Peaceful Waters is about the size of Wako and have no idea about Busch.

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I will Google these places. Hopefully they are not much further to drive then CCBR.

Blacktop said:

I will Google these places. Hopefully they are not much further to drive then CCBR.

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It was suppose to take us three hours to get from Delray to Lakeland, but the GPS got us lost and took 4.5 hours.

Edit: I think it only took Rich about an hour to get to CBBR.

Marilynne said:

It was suppose to take us three hours to get from Delray to Lakeland, but the GPS got us lost and took 4.5 hours.

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Oh ok. That is quite a ways further, but we'll see how much time we have. This is like a last minute thing that wasn't expected so not much time to plan.
I already setup boarding for Max and Lilly for next week, so we might be able to take an extra day if we had to.

I would love to visit somewhere out of the way, where there are not many tourist and won't get trampled by screaming children....I hate screaming children!!

Rich would be the man to ask I only know CBBR and a few really small lakes in Lakeland that you can walk around in 1/2 hour

I hope you have a real blast buddy! I wish traveling was fun for me instead of an anxiety storm!lol
I also hope you get a few landscapes my friend, since I am a real fan of your swamp scapes!

In the Lakeland area, I have only been to the Circle B. I have seem some really nice images come from the Lake Apopka Wildlife drive and from Gatorland in Orlando. I have not been to either but they are on my list of places to visit. Going the complete opposite direction, Celery Fields in Sarasota seems pretty hot lately. Fort Desoto has decent shorebirds and at times the view of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge is awesome.

Bill16 said:

I hope you have a real blast buddy! I wish traveling was fun for me instead of an anxiety storm!lol
I also hope you get a few landscapes my friend, since I am a real fan of your swamp scapes!

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Thanks Bill. I'll make sure I take some wide angle swamp shots as well. Put that 20mm AF-D to good use.

richnmib said:

In the Lakeland area, I have only been to the Circle B. I have seem some really nice images come from the Lake Apopka Wildlife drive and from Gatorland in Orlando. I have not been to either but they are on my list of places to visit. Going the complete opposite direction, Celery Fields in Sarasota seems pretty hot lately. Fort Desoto has decent shorebirds and at times the view of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge is awesome.

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Thanks. I will keep those in mind as well.

This Q wasn't directed at me but if you're doing several days,, Do - Fort Desoto which usually doesnt get particularly crowded till noon ,theres also Three lakes Prairie lakes and Joe Overstreet road ,,,over farther eastwards- there's Mead gardens and Orlando wetlands... Tenoroc , Tosohatchee and indeed a bunch more. To get ideas I went to whatbird and suggest they would be of big help.... and even more so if you narrow down to some logistically feasible locations and ask opinions ( Ive been to many in central FL and would point out that Lk Apopka was not ,and may still not be, open except weekends etc)

richnmib said:

In the Lakeland area, I have only been to the Circle B. I have seem some really nice images come from the Lake Apopka Wildlife drive and from Gatorland in Orlando. I have not been to either but they are on my list of places to visit. Going the complete opposite direction, Celery Fields in Sarasota seems pretty hot lately. Fort Desoto has decent shorebirds and at times the view of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge is awesome.

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Not knowing the Celery fields,except for the kites ,, how exactly does one "check it out"? its basically just a strip of road , right? so one pulls over anywhere and scopes whats in the field???? is there more to it?

I've been to Florida....... it's over rated. I think it's still there.

This is the map I use......

Marilynne said:

What happened to the map Ted? Went to comment that's why I never go south of Boca Raton and it disappeared!!

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I had to clean up some of the language I noticed after I posted. And note that Deerfield has no description..... that's cuz we're all dead already.

Stoshowicz said:

Not knowing the Celery fields,except for the kites ,, how exactly does one "check it out"? its basically just a strip of road , right? so one pulls over anywhere and scopes whats in the field???? is there more to it?

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I would guess you "check it out" any way you would want to. Me, I would go and out and put my boots on the ground and see what there is to see, if anything. Even if it is a "just a strip of road", I have seen some nice images come from there.

TedG954 said:

I've been to Florida....... it's over rated. I think it's still there.

This is the map I use......

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