This week, on the Florida History Podcast we discuss the history of Silver Springs, Florida’s original tourist destination. Below is a short video showing sites from Silver Springs. You can listen to the Florida History Podcast on Anchor (which hosts our show), Spotify, Google, Apple Podcasts, Radio Public, Breaker, Overcast, Castro or Pocket Casts. Overcast, Castro, Spotify, Radio Public and Breaker have App Store apps for […]

A series of videos from Blue Springs, a natural area on the St Johns River in Volusia County.

One of my favorite local urban parks for walking and birding in a Florida city is Scott Springs in Ocala. The park also features a sinkhole. Here is a video of the sinkhole taken earlier this month:

A Cypress Swamp at the Arthur Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge just west of Boynton Beach.

Pelican Island NWR in Indian River County, was designated as the first National Wildlife Refuge in the country, in 1903 by President Theodore Roosevelt. In the following video’s we take a tour of internal areas of Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge and discuss the history of the protected areas in the Indian River Lagoon. Some […]

Here is a 4K video walk-through of the Tall Cypress Natural Area in Coral Springs. This area was preserved in 1991 and presents a view of how Southeast Florida once looked. It features cypress swamps, saw palmetto plants and a willow lake.