The Annual Strawberry Festival at the First Presbyterian Church in Tequesta is coming to town next Saturday, March 5, 2016. Come experience a magical world filled to the brim with strawberry creations. 

The Strawberry Festival will have a great variety of fun events for kids like face painting, a bounce house and a craft center. The Strawberry Café will be offering delicious lunches and desserts inspired by strawberries. Treats like strawberry milkshakes, strawberry trifles, homemade jams and jellies, fresh strawberries and so much more will be available for purchase. There will be a silent auction and raffle offering some pretty amazing items like certificates to some of the best local restaurants in town. In the church garage there will be an…

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Want to go on a different adventure or spend a day doing something different from the usual in South Florida? Then you have to explore the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton. Gumbo Limbo is a nature center that dedicates its being to protecting the coastal and marine environments of south Florida. 

Each year, the nature loving staff at Gumbo Limbo rehabilitates hundreds of endangered marine creatures, making sea turtles their specialization. They house a wide variety of precious sea turtles, from leatherbacks to the Floridian loggerheads and they are all available for you to come visit. 

Gumbo Limbo’s Mission: “To support coastal and marine education, conservation and research endeavors of the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center.”

What makes the Gumbo…

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Who doesn’t like to enjoy their winter months in the perfect South Florida weather? While most of the nation is trudging through snow and bundling up this time of year, Floridians are enjoying sun, mimosas and polo season! 

Every Sunday at the International Polo Club Palm Beach you and your family and friends can come out to the polo club from 2-5pm to relax, sip and enjoy as you spectate the elegant game of polo. 

The International Polo Club Palm Beach has earned its reputation as one of the best polo destinations across the globe. It is home to the “largest field of high-goal teams” and hosts the most prominent matches in the United States. The sport of polo is a centuries old sport that been enjoyed by royalty and the world’s elite for decades…

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Tomorrow, sculptor and scuba diver, Thomas McDonald and his students from the Riviera Beach Maritime Academy will be revealing their latest project. McDonald and his artistically gifted students have been working hard on a beautiful mermaid sculpture that will live underwater. The mermaid, named Andrea, is made of concrete and is supposed to be submerged tomorrow off of the Coast of Palm Beach County.

McDonald has created a number of other under water sculptures that currently rest on the sea floor off of the Breakers Reef in Palm Beach. Last year, McDonald donated three 1,500-pound shark sculptures. The three cement hammerhead shark sculptures were sunk into the crystal clear waters of the Lake Worth Lagoon at Phil…

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Newly added this year to the schedule of events put on in south Florida is the “2016 Suite of Eco-Adventures” presented by the Florida Coastal Office. This schedule of eco-adventures is going to be taking place at four different locations around the state of Florida. These adventures will take participants on amazing adventures like kayaking journeys, catamaran sails, snorkeling explorations, wading trips into the water and educational boat tours. Each of the activities will be specially geared towards educating the guests and encouraging them to explore their local Floridian environments.

The Florida Coastal Office is excited to offer these adventures in hopes that local Floridians and tourists will have a fun way to learn all about the intriguing…

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Come take a walk through some mind-blowing works of art this weekend in Lake Worth at the celebrated Street Painting Festival. The festival will take place February 20 & 21. Life sized works of art chalked right onto the street create a feast for your eyes unlike anything you have ever seen.

This year is the 22nd year of the Lake Work Street Painting Festival and it is promising to be even better than years past. There will be massive, street murals painted by over 600 artists. Some of the works of art are so big and so well done it will look like you might fall off of a cliff or that you can walk right into the ocean from the beach, even though you are just walking through the streets of Lake Worth. In years past over 100,000 art loving guests have passed…

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Enjoy this perfect, Florida “winter” with a leisurely Saturday at the Boca Raton Green Market. The Boca Raton Green Market has been a staple, weekend event in southern Palm Beach County for 19 years now.

The market takes place at the southern “Monument Piazza” which is found at the Intersection of South Federal Highway and South East Mizner Boulevard in Boca Raton. The market opens bright and early at 8am and bustles on until 1pm every Saturday from November until May. With an abundance of locally sourced foods, goods, plants and products, the Boca Raton Market is the premier shopping destination for the best in south Florida harvests.

As the sounds of live music fill the air, guests of the market will find an incredible assortment of fresh cut and live…

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Not only have food trucks taken over the streets of the culinary world but they are taking over Jupiter! Gourmet Food Trucks started rolling through Abacoa and lining the Intracoastal and the masses have followed. Every second Friday of the month at the Abacoa Town Center in Jupiter, Florida is a “Food Truck Invasion.”

The Food Truck Invasion got its start in the spring of 2013 and they are a gourmet sensation on wheels. They have been featured in top magazines, blogs and TV shows. They are a fun way to extend top quality foods into a hand-held delight on the go. Each “invasion” brings a multitude of different food trucks each selling their own creations. If you’re thinking it sounds a little funny, the idea of getting your meal from a truck, you aren’t…

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The legendary sounds of jazz trumpet icon, Arturo Sandoval, are coming to Palm Beach. The only show he will be playing in Florida is going to be right in our backyard at the elegant Society of the Four Arts of Palm Beach on February 24, 2016.

Arturo Sandoval is one of the most celebrated jazz artists alive and his music has won 10 Grammy Awards and has been nominated 19 times. He has also received 6 Billboard Awards and an Emmy. The latter for his composing work on the entire underscore of the HBO movie based on his life, “For Love or Country” that starred Andy Garcia as Arturo. His two latest Grammy award winning albums, “Dear Diz “Everyday I think of you” and Tango “Como Yo Te Siento” are now available worldwide. Arturo Sandoval’s newest CD, Eternamente…

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The charming Village of Tequesta will be hosting a movie night in the park this Saturday, February 13, 2016. This weekend’s feature film is “Hotel Transylvania 2” a perfect film for kids, families or even just adults.

These movie nights in the park are hosted at Constitution Park, located at 399 Seabrook Road in Tequesta. The get together starts at 4:30pm but the movie will begin playing at dusk. Make sure to arrive at a good time to get a prime spot to spread out your blanket and get your refreshments. Refreshments will be available for sale. All attendees are encouraged to bring their own blankets or chairs, as they will not be available for purchase.

Admission to “A Movie in the Park” in Tequesta is free for all Tequesta residents and kids ages 3 and…

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