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This is our fun page, where we list oddities, obscure facts and the just plain weird about Florida. Where possible we'll tell you how to go see the weird thing. We'll be adding items ourselves but feel free to suggest some too. Visit our Contact page to do that.

It's not a job, it's an adventure. On Wednesday, 2 June, 2010, more than 100 service personnel from MacDill Air Force Base converged on Adventure Island in Tampa (adjacent to BUsch Gardens). They practiced swimming skills. All this happened in the wee smalls and the park opened for normal business as usual.

Cole-Slaw Wrestling returns to Daytona. Friday, 5 March, 2010: Biker Week is too boring, it seems, for some people. they want a side dish too. We're not sure how many cabbages had to die for this and—so sorry—we have no photo of half-naked women sliding around in the slaw. Seems that, this being the South, after all, they would do grits wrestling instead.

Gator 1, Tampa Police 0, in tug of war.

Who says police reports are dull reading? This Tampa cop writes a gripping tale of an encounter with an angry alligator. Click here to read the story.

 

 

  

 

 
 

Stan (or maybe Gladys, hard to tell) a burrowing owl, in the Red Zone. Burrowing owls dig in for a goal-line stand on the Piper High School football field, forcing players to practice and play their games elsewhere.

Comments about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers also being an endangered species that perhaps should play elsewhere too are being met with—well—sorrow.

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Waldo turns up safe.
Autonomous underwater research vehicle missing for ten days suddenly reports in, is rescued. Read the story here. Mote Marine Lab in Sarasota is happy to have their $130,000 instrument back, but Waldo's whereabouts for more than a week leave us with questions:

  • Was he abducted by aliens?If so, did they...you know...probe him?
  • Was he visiting his girlfriend in Argentina?
  • Was he swallowed by a giant fish?
  • Was he just getting bad cell phone reception?
    
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