don't ask me why on the last one - whatever you call them, cobia are great gamefish, and they are making their annual run past our shores. ...more

May 2, 2008

TAMPA - Sometime this morning a manatee named Hurricane experienced something he hadn't seen in his 24 years: open water. ...more

February 11, 2008

Oh, if preserving all the great symbols of Florida could be as easy as hiring them on as state employees. ...more

January 30, 2008

Not only will the sold out works of renowned contemporary artist Jeremy Fish be part of the exhibit "Out of Print" celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Skatepark in Tampa, but the man himself is in town. We caught up with the humble and soft-spoken Fish on a mission to see manatees while in the area. He talked about his work and the journey of an artist. ...more

January 18, 2008

Lolling. Unadulterated lolling. Scores of manatees spent hours doing just that, along with an occasional roll, splash or flip of the tail, in the 30-acre outdoor sauna that Tampa Electric Co.'s Big Bend Station provided during last week's winter chill. ...more

January 9, 2008

Lolling. Unadulterated lolling. Scores of manatees spent hours doing just that, along with an occasional roll, splash or flip of the tail, in the 30-acre outdoor sauna that Tampa Electric Co.'s Big Bend Station provided during last week's winter chill. ...more

January 9, 2008

Last week's cool spell turned the discharge canal at Tampa Electric Co.'s Big Bend Station into a 30-acre outdoor sauna for more than 100 manatees. "It's a manatee spa," TECO environmental specialist Wendy Valle Anastasiou told visitors Thursday at the Manatee Viewing Center. ...more

January 9, 2008

Not far from where the Tampa Bay Rays hope to build a new ballpark, something is bubbling to the surface. ...more

January 5, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - Not far from where the Tampa Bay Rays hope to build a new ballpark, something is bubbling to the surface. ...more

January 4, 2008

The critters can come and go as they like, but Old Man Winter drove them in Thursday with tail-biting temperatures, transforming the warm-water canal at Big Bend Station into a kind of sea cow corral. ...more

January 4, 2008