Field trips are held on the last Saturday of each month, unless otherwise indicated. We schedule field trips during season, October-May, and also have field trips over the summer months.
Wear water shoes and bring a hat, insect repellant, sun tan lotion and drinking water. Hopefully these places will be high and dry - but who knows?
| Sleeping Turtles - Ligon May 26th, 2012, 9:00am 3462 Border Road, Venice Contact Denny Girard with questions, 941-474-1492, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Early summer blossoms should be on display. Perhaps we will see the elusive Pineland Lobelia. Partridge pea and Wild Tobacco, Resurection Ferns, Wild Pine and Spanish moss turn the myriad of Oak Tress into a wonderland. For more information on the park click here. |
| Urfer Family Park Jun 30th, 2012, 9:00am 4000 Honore Ave, Sarasota Contact Denny Girard with questions, 941-474-1492, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . This park is a recovering pasture with gopher tortoises, pawpaw and a wide variety of scrub plants. We will also take a short walk on a boardwalk over lizard's tail and through elderberry. Directions: I75 to exit 270, Bee Ridge Road. Go west to Honore and turn left onto Honore, turn right into the Park and go to end of Parking lot. For more information on the park, click here.
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| Hathaway Park Jul 28th, 2012, 9:00am 35461 Washington Loop Road, Punta Gorda Contact Denny Girard with questions, 941-474-1492, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Join us on our annual summer pilgrimage to Hathaway Park. Enjoy a sharded walk along Shell Creek and enjoy the hog plum and other native and exotic plants. Directions: I75 south to Rout 17. Go east to Washington Loop Road. Turn right onto Washington Loop Rd. and continue to Hathaway Park on the left. For more information on the park, click here.
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| Cedar Point Environmental Park Aug 25th, 2012, 9:00am 2300 Placida Road, Englewood Contact Denny Girard with questions, 941-474-1492, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Come and enjoy summer at Cedar Point. The seaside gentian should be in bloom and we will take a leisurely walk to Lemon Bay. Directions: From SR 766 take SR 775 (Placida Road) south to Cedar Point Environmental Park, which is on the right, just south of Lemon Bay High School. For more information about the park, click here.
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| Ann Dever Memorial Regional Park Sep 29th, 2012, 9:00am At the end of Harbor Drive on Venice Island Contact Denny Girard with questions, 941-474-1492, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . This mostly shaded walk will take us through a pine flatwood to a scrub area and finally a bridge over Oyster Creek.
Directions: From SR 776 take Can Casa Road to the park. Enterance is opposite the driveway into the Charlotte County Administration Center. Go to the back of the park past the skate park. For more information on the park, click here. |