Month: August 2019

Photo by Andrea Izzotti

Forget about Shark Week!  We’d rather highlight a delightful creature closer to home.  So many of our guests fall in love with our bottlenose dolphin, and it’s easy to understand why.

USA Today recently published an article, based on sources such as smithsonianmag.com, detailing surprising similarities between humans and dolphins.   » Read more

With the popularity of Shark Week, we think it’s worthwhile reminding everyone to keep a level head as to how dangerous sharks really are.

According to Tyler Bowling, the manager of the Florida Program for Shark Research at the Florida Museum of Natural History at University of Florida, “The last calculated odds (of being attacked by a shark) are 11 or 12 million to 1,” Bowling said.  » Read more

It’s almost here!

The annual Noah’s Ark Bag Day event is coming up Friday, August 9, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

Customers may buy marked bags in the parking lot for $4 each, fill them with store goods and walk away with as many items as the bags will carry!  Customers are free to purchase as many $4 bags as they wish for the Bag Day sale.  » Read more

Photo by Pamela Underhill Karaz

Thanks so much to longtime guest Laura G. from Nyon, Switzerland, for letting us know that the 2019 Audubon Photography Awards were recently announced.  She knows how many of our guests love bird photography!

This year, thousands of photographers from across the United States and Canada submitted more than 8,000 images to the 10th annual Audubon Photography Awards.  » Read more

Photo of the super ghost orchid from the National Audubon Society.  

Article by Chad Gillis, Fort Myers News-Press: 

The heart of the swamp hearkens back to ancient Florida, to a wild, subtropical peninsula that early explorers said wasn’t fit for man or beast.

But it’s here that man and beast intersect, mostly on an elevated boardwalk that stretches through the cypress trees and seasonal ponds.  » Read more