The list of the greatest restaurants in Florida includes two strangely amazing eateries in Naples and Captiva

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Restaurants – Couple cheering glasses at dinner table – Courtesy: Shutterstock – Image by Aleksandar Milutinovic The culinary culture in Florida is vibrantly local. And we mean both gastronomically and aesthetically by that. The Sunshine State is full of strangely amazing places, like the Panhandle’s magical wizard fries, Jacksonville’s alien-themed taco and tequila bar, and

One of USA TODAY’s “10Best” State Fairs in the United States is Florida’s State Fair

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Florida State Fair — Courtesy: Shutterstock — Noah Densmore There is just one official state fair in Florida, but there are over 100 county fairs and festivals annually. A group of experts and USA TODAY readers has named the Florida State Fair, which takes place in Tampa, Florida every February, one of the top ten

For the second consecutive year, this local beach was named Florida’s greatest

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Florida Beach – Courtesy: Shutterstock – Image by Sky Cinema Delray Beach, FL. — With sun, sand, and major bragging rights, Delray Beach has soared to the top once more, taking home USA TODAY’s Best Beach in Florida title for the second consecutive year. With its second consecutive year at the top of USA TODAY’s

Florida is home to three of the best small towns in the South

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Surf Hotspot: Cocoa Beach, Florida Pier – Courtesy: Shutterstock – Image by lunamarina Three Florida villages are charming and among the best in the South, a new survey shows. Results released April 9 listed the towns as smaller sites for “relaxing getaways, cultural immersion, outdoor adventures, and culinary delights” for vacationers. The ranked locations are:

A 50-foot sperm whale washes up on a sandbar off the Florida coast of Venice

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Sperm whale in water – Courtesy: Animalgraphy Update: Sperm whale has died. Off the Florida shore of Venice Beach, authorities made an effort to assist a 50-foot beached whale on Sunday. By Sunday night, officials had revised their estimates of the whale’s length and weight, which had been 50 feet long and 50,000–70,000 pounds. The

5,000-mile-wide blob of seaweed can make beachgoers sick

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Sargassum (seaweed) pollution — Courtesy: Shutterstock — Bret Reyes Seaweed blobs that smell terrible are already washing up on Florida’s shores. According to Brian Lapointe, a research professor at Florida Atlantic University, they’ve “already seen some of this arriving in Key West.” It’s not simply smelly, he claimed. As more wash up on the shore,

An enormous blob of stinky seaweed is on its way to Florida beaches

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Seaweed pollution along Miami Beach, Florida — Courtesy: Shutterstock — Sergii Figurnyi The majority of the stinky seaweed buildup in the Atlantic, which is being closely monitored by researchers, is expected to end up on Florida beaches this summer. Jetty Park was covered in stinky, brown seaweed in July of last year. This brown seaweed

The Sunshine State’s Lion Country Safari is named one of the nation’s Top 5 safari parks

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Lion Country Safari, Loxahatchee, FL – Courtesy: Shutterstock – Image by mariakray Providing a one-on-one experience with exotic animals since 1967, and rumored to be the first-ever cage-less zoo in the U.S., Lion Country Safari has officially been named the fifth best safari park in the nation in USA Today’s “10 Best” Readers’ Choice 2022

Tampa’s Cuban Club & St. Augustine Lighthouse Nominated For USA Today’s 10Best List For Best Haunted Destination

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Are the spooky experiences the Cuban Club in Tampa and the St. Augustine Lighthouse enough to land the two places on USA Today’s 10Best list for Best Haunted Destination?