Feed the Sharks in Delray!

The catchy, official slogan for shark month at the Sandoway House nature center is “come take a bite out of summer!” From June 1st to August 31st, you can hand feed the nurse sharks in their beautiful, protected habitat here in Delray Beach. 

Tuesday through Saturday at 10:30am and on Sundays at 1:30pm at the Sandoway House, the marine wildlife specialists feed the sharks that live in the 15,000-gallon tank. Visitors will be right by the action! You can watch the live feeding and as well as learn loads of interesting facts about Florida’s marine life and the sharks. Admission is $4 per person (children 3 years and under are free). 

Don’t miss the opportunity to hand feed a shark! The Sandoway marine experts create a protected and educational…

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THE THIRD ANNUAL CRAFT BEER & BURGER BASH PGA NATIONAL RESORT & SPA 400 AVENUE OF THE CHAMPIONS  PALM BEACH GARDENS, FL 33418
 

The smash hit event is coming back to the PGA National Resort and Spa in Palm Beach Gardens this June! Taking place on Saturday, June 14th from 12pm to 4pm, the Third Annual Craft Beer Festival and Burger Bash is sure to set the bar high. You will have access to the best burgers in Palm Beach County as well as the best in craft brewers offering an unparalleled selection. 

Make sure you buy your tickets soon because there will only be a limited number available for sale. The cost to enter the festival is $45 and that covers the unlimited samples from all of the different vendors, beer and burgers alike. The vendors…

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Living in BallenIsles Country Club, Palm Beach Gardens, affords you all Palm Beach County has to offer. In addition to BallenIsles being a premiere country club with three championship golf courses and Grand Slam Tennis Center, it is nestled within 1,300 pristine acres. Amongst the luxury custom estate homes, courtyard homes and villas, one will find local wildlife.

In an effort to preserve, protect, foster and respect the wildlife within the community, members have taken an active part by creating the BallenIsles Wildlife Foundation.   The BallenIsles Wildlife Foundation is a 501© (3) nonprofit organization funded by donations and led by dedicated volunteer residents.

It is not unusual to see a neighborhood dog ever so gently entertaining baby ducklings. …

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Mark your calendars – All Aboard Florida is the scheduled topic for a meeting on May 27 at 7:00pm at the Tequesta Baptist Church, on Tequesta Drive.   The meeting is open to the public.  Officials have asked state leaders for help to reduce All Aboard Florida’s impact.  A meeting on this topic was discussed in Jupiter back in April.

Tequesta Mayor, Abby Brennan, Kim Delany, Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council strategic development coordinator and Representative Patrick Murphy, D-Jupiter are scheduled to be present for this meeting.  The panel is will discuss the privately funded $1.5 billion high-speed passenger-freight train scheduled to run in 2016 between Orlando and Miami.

All Aboard Florida wants to run 32 additional high-speed trains through our…

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Join this pre-Mother’s Day event designed to get all the women out on the beach and into the water. 

Make waves at the “Share the Stoke Foundation’s Ladies Yoga, Surf and SUP” event on Saturday, May 10 from 9:00am to 1p.m.  Join the group at Beach Walkway #60 on Jupiter Beach. 

Start your morning off with an all levels yoga class, followed by surf and stand up paddleboard (SUP) lessons.  All SUP equipment and instructors provided by Blueline Surf and Paddle in Jupiter Inlet Village.

Share the Stoke Foundation is a 501c3 charitable organization building positive surf communities. They are dedicated to donating surfboards to kids and teenagers in need in an effort to keep them off the street.  The organization states, “Around the world coastal…

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Get your paddles, canoes, kayaks and standup paddleboards ready for the 12th annual “Great Loxahatchee River Race" on Saturday, May 17th, at Jonathan Dickinson State Park, 16450 S.E. Federal Highway in Hobe Sound. The weather is perfect in our area with warm sunshine and gentle breezes why not try something different?

The Loxahatchee River offers paddling enthusiasts 8.5 miles of waterway that varies greatly.  The federally designated “wild and scenic” river offers miles of beaches, rivers, lagoons and waterways to explore.  The upper portion of the northwest fork flows through Jonathan Dickenson State Park. This portion of the fork in the river flows from Riverbend Park all the way to the Boy Scout Camp.
 
The name “Loxahatchee River” in the Seminole…

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For the second straight year, the boat of "Bull Run" won the Winner's Circle Charities Fishing Invitational. 

Held from April 30th through May 3rd at Old Bahama Bay Resort , the boats had three days to catch Tuna, Dolphin, and Wahoo that weighed at least 10 pounds. The largest from each category was counted and weighed with the grand total of all three being the determinant of which boat won the event.

Tom Smith and Bull Run won with a grand total weigh-in of 87.8 pounds. The Tuna weighed in at 40.4 pounds, Dolphin at 35.4 pounds, and Wahoo at 12 pounds to equal the grand total of 87.8 pounds. Coming in second place with a total weigh in of 87.7 pounds was Johnny Gray and the boat of "Dream Chaser", while Mike Viola and "Pandemonium" came in third…

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For many local golfers, Friday's US Open Qualifying event at Admirals Cove signified the beggining of their life long dream of being able to compete in our golf National Championship. For five lucky golfers, the dream is now one step closer to a reality.

As it has for many years, the East Course at Admirals hosted the first Local Qualifier for the US Open, officially kicking off qualifying season. Over the next several weeks, thousands of golfers from all over the world will compete in local qualifiers in the hopes of advancing to sectional qualifiers. From there the lucky few that continue to advance will earn spots in the 2014 U.S. Open held at Pinehurst Number 2 in North Carolina.

Adam Long and Paul Scaletta of Jupiter, Bobby Collins and Richard…

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The April 2014 issue of Jupiter Inlet Magazine polled the readers for a “2014 Best of the Area…Outdoors”

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     BEST PLACE TO TAKE A DATE for LIVE MUSIC:

            GUANABANA’S/SQUARE GROUPER TIKI BARS
     
    BEST PLACE TO HIKE:

            JONATHON DICKINSON STATE PARK

    BEST  BEACH:

               HOBE SOUND NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE (north end of Jupiter Island)

    BEST PADDLING:

                LOXAHATCHEE RIVER

    BEST SURF BREAK:

                JUNO PIER

    BEST SNORKELING:

             CARLIN PARK

    BEST BOATING:

        INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY
 
    BEST BIRD WATCHING:

            JONATHON DICKINSON STATE PARK
       
      BEST BIKE RIDE:

           …

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South Florida Tourism

Now that the sun is warming up the northeast, the south Florida ‘season’ for tourism begins to wind down. Our winter season (which isn’t super wintery) has just been bustling and as it ended it set records. Across the nation hotels and resorts boasted 90 percent occupancy in February. This astonishingly high percentage rendered $5.1 million in bed taxes, as documented by the Tourist Development Council. March’s numbers clocked in at 87 percent. A few percentage points in occupancy can mean a gain of 10 percent in revenue because hotel owners can charge harder rates. 

The chief marketing officer for Visit Florida, the tourism agency for the state, Paul Phipps, noted that Florida’s hotel occupancy was 80 percent in March of 2014.  This is 20 percent…

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