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Apalachicola
John Gorrie State Museum

Bonifay
All-Night Gospel Singing (Sat before July 4; 10,000 people)

Brevard County
(world’s highest concentration of West Indian manatees)

Cape Canaveral
Kennedy Space Center (tour, memorial)
Merritt Island Natural Wildlife Refuge (250 bird species)

Cedar Key
Clam Shack (Highway 24)
Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuge (kayaking)
Dock Street pier
Island Hotel

Chokoloskee
Smallwood Store Museum (trading post)

Coral Gables
Biltmore
Books & Books (restaurant too)

Everglades
Linger Lodge Restaurant (exotic pets, river and game meals); Sunday Bay Chickee (guided overnight canoe camping)
Big Cypress National Preserve (2 1/2 mile canoe trip, karst limestone, bald cypresses)
Flamingo Lodge Marina (canoeing)
Flamingo Lodge Restaurant (arrive early for window seat)
Wilderness Waterway (99 miles, December-April)
Everglades City to Flamingo (1 week)
Billy Swamp Boats

Florida Keys
largest barrier reef in US


Fort Myers, Fl
Seminole Lodge (Edison’s lab, garden, inventions)
Mangoes (Ford’s place)

Fort Pierce
UDT Seal Museum (Navy’s underwater demolition history)

Gainesville
Devil’s Millhopper State Geological Site (descend into a real sinkhole)
Fred Bear Museum (bowhunting history)

Jacksonville
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum (original historical manuscripts)

Kendall
Jamaican Kitchen?

Key Largo
The Crack’d Conch
Key Lime Products Shop (Key Lime everything)
The Fish House
Ganim’s Pennkamp
Dolphins Plus
Pennekamp State Park


Key West
Kelly’s Carribean Bar and Grill
Bahia Honda Beach
John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park (snorkeling)
Big Pine Kayak Adventures (kayaking thru Knockemdown and Tarpon Belly Keys)
Mangrove Mamma’s (conch chowder, rock lobster)
Big Pine Key Fishing Lodge
113-mile, 42-bridge highway
East Martello Museum (local history)
Wreckers Museum
Mel Fisher Museum

Lakeland
Sun ‘n’ Fun Air Museum

Lake Wales Fl
Spook Hill (put car in neutral and car will appear to roll uphill)

Lake Worth
Havana Hideout (catering truck with tropical patio; fish tacos, Cuban sandwich, empanadas, garlic pork)3

Melbourne Beach
McLarty Treasure Museum (1715 Spanish fleet treasure)

Miami
Garcia’s Seafood (beer-battered conch)
Arnie and Richie’s (NY deli, thick potato pancakes)
Islas Canarias (medianoche-traditional Cuban sandwich)
American Police Hall of Fame (somber/cool, fallen officers memorial/sit in an electric chair)
Gold Coast Railroad Museum (presidential train)
Icon Brickell Viceroyal Hotel (3 pools that are longest in world (300 ft); can have lunch in shallow one; 2000 sq ft hot tub)
Benny's (Puerto Rican: mufango--plantain and garlic w/ seafood, pork, chicken or beef. conch salad)3

Miami Beach
The Kent (rooms)?

Micanopy
Smiley’s (200-dealer flea market)

Mulberry
Phosphate Museum (industry, ancient life)

Naples
Teddy Bear Museum (make one, buy one or see one in the Li-bear-y)

New Smyrna Beach
highest number of shark attacks in world

North Miami Beach
Blue Marlin Fish House (smoked sampler, mahi mahi, fried grouper, smoked marlin, conch fritters, crab cake sandwiches, smoked fish dip)3

Ocala
Don Gorlits Museum (drag racing)

Orlando
Disneyworld (Blizzard Beach)
Fun-in-the-Sun Postcard Sale (Jan)
1000 water parks nearby
Wet n' Wild (disco-themed ride, Bubble up ride, beachball)
Typhoon Lagoon (Blizzard Beach, Surfing Lagoon--largest pool in US and 6 ft waves, Shark Reef--saltwater and fresh)
WDW?
Animal Kingdom

Palm Beach
The Breakers (kid’s secret garden)
zoo

Panama City Beach
Museum of Man in the Sea (diving, underwater exploration)

Pensacola
Cayo Costa State Park (kayaking and camping)
The Fish House (seafood, black grouper, gaspachi salad,
Chef's Restaurant (no sign--blown down by past hurricane; deep-fried mullet-- clean bottom feeder fish; acquired tastes- mullet gizzards and roe)

Perry
Forest Capital State Cultural Museum (turpentine history; county map using native wood)

Pinellas County
most tornadoes in US


Saint Augustine
Spanish Bakery (empanadas)
Oldest Store Museum (19th C general store)

St Petersburg
Ted Peter’s Famous Smoked Fish (smoked salmon, mullet, mahi mahi, fish spread, warm potato salad)3

Sanibel Island
Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum (Shell Capital of the World)


Sarasota
Alpine Steakhouse (turducken)
Pincecraft Amish Community
Old Salty Dog (salty dog--beer-battered hot dog, blackened grouper; view)3
Yoder's (Amish: fried chicken, pot roast, 25 homemade pies, mashed potatoes)3
?Munchies 4:20 Cafe

South Beach
11th Street Diner (breakfast, burgers, Monte Cristo, apple raisin porkchops, Argentina steak, in a railroad car)3

Tampa
Sanibel Island (seashells)
Busch Gardens (King Tut’s tomb)
Mike’s Pies (key lime)
Adventure Island (waterpark)

Tarpon Springs
10% Greek

Vero Beach
Joe’s Stone Crab (conch)
Blue Cypress Recreation Area (Sebastian River)
Tides (Leanne Kelleher's restaurant)

Weeki Wachee
Weeki Wachee Springs (world's only underwater mermaid cabaret; since 1947)

White Springs
Stephen Foster State Folk Culture Center

Winter Haven
Water Ski Museum (history)

Winter Park
Charles Morse Museum of American Art (more Tiffany than anywhere else in world)

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Dry Tortugas National Park FL (military history, swimming, snorkeling)
Davie- British Marketplace
Whale's Rib (clam chowder, mussels, crab cake, Oyster Rockerfellers, calamari salad, whale juice, fried dolphin Key West--mahi mahi,