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Right next to Busch Gardens is a full 30-acre Florida Keys themed water park located conveniently in Tampa. Jump into a tide wave of rides full of slides, tubes, rapids, and corkscrews. Or you can chill out and relax in your own private cabana, or grab a tube and float lazily down a slow moving stream. Catch a wave in the Endless Surf 17,000 square foot wave pool that every… Continue Reading Adventure Island

Experience underwater viewing windows, dolphin pools, hands-on stingray tank, and other one-of-a-kind marine animal homes. Meet Winter, the star of the Hollywood blockbuster movie, “Dolphin Tale”! See turtles, sharks, otters and fish all swimming and playing in their homes throughout the aquarium. Included in the admission to Clearwater Marine Aquarium is the behind-the-scenes exhibit, Winter’s Dolphin Tale Adventure. See rebuilt scenes and actual props from the movie. The kids will… Continue Reading Clearwater Marine Aquarium

Tampa Bay’s Africa Theme Park! Bring out your roller coaster enthusiasts and challenge yourself to the six major roller coasters found at Busch Gardens: Kumba, Cheetah Hunt, Montu, Gwazi, SheiKra, and Scorpion. Get soaked on three different water rides, Congo River Rapids, Stanley Falls, and Tanganyika Tidal Wave. Get close up with the Serengeti and see lions, rhinos, zebras, meerkats, elephants, giraffes, alligators and more! Wander into Jungala and get… Continue Reading Busch Gardens Tampa Bay

Get closer to all your favorite sea creatures at The Florida Aquarium. See cownose rays, sand tiger sharks, sea dragons, green sea turtles, moray eels, giant pacific octopus, and thousands of other unforgettable creatures. Touch real stingrays and bamboo sharks in the 5,000 gallon Touch Tank. You can also touch sea stars, crustaceans, urchins and mollusks in the No Bone Zone touch tank. Enter the wetlands and get within inches… Continue Reading The Florida Aquarium

The South Florida Museum is the largest natural and cultural museum on Florida’s Gulf Coast. See dramatic dioramas, exciting exhibits, fossil evidence of Florida’s earliest marine and mammal life, and the world renowned collection of prehistoric and early post-contact archaeological artifacts from Montague Tallant. Continue Reading South Florida Museum

MOSI is a scientific playground with more than 450 hands-on activities in over 400,000 square feet of permanent interactive exhibits! Come have fun and learn at the same time! Let your child’s knowledge expand in the largest children’s science center in the nation. Brave extreme weather conditions in Disaterville, featuring WeatherQuest. Live through tornadoes  hurricanes, wildfires, and more! Harness yourself to the longest High Wire Bike in a U.S. museum and ride along… Continue Reading Museum of Science & Industry (MOSI)

The Ringling, also known as The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, is located on 66 acres of spectacular bay front property in Sarasota, Florida, and preserves the legacy of John Ringling, one of the founders of the Ringling Bros. Circus (now known as Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus), and his wife, Mable. It is home to an art museum, a circus museum, a five-story mansion, a… Continue Reading The Ringling

Welcome to the Stray Dog, a 43-foot Torres sport fish equipped with state-of-the-art electronics and exceeds all US Coast Guard regulation and safety requirements. You can choose from a variety of fishing trips from family fu’ trips of only 4- and 6-hours, or full day 8- and 10-hour trips, to a longer range of 12-, 14-, and 16-hour trips. Up to six passengers are welcome and the dock is located conveniently in… Continue Reading Stray Dog Offshore Sportfishing

Fish the Anna Maria Island area with Captain Tom Chaya. His local knowledge of fishing in the local area for 30 years will help you fish the Tampa Bay and Gulf of Mexico waters like a native. Capt. Tom offers a variety of different fishing locations: backwater/backcountry, flats, bay, and offshore. Have fun catching snook, tarpon, permit, trout, redfish, snapper, grouper, cobia, kingfish, mackerel, and flounder. http://annamariafishingcharters.com/

You Only Live Once! YOLO Adventures offers parasailing, sunset cruises, eco tours, dolphin watching and much more . . . Choose from a variety of adventures from parasailing, jet skiing, sunset cruises, eco-tours, dolphin watching and much more! Whoever you are, however old or young, YOLO Adventures has something that will add a special memory to your vacation. Whether you want to soar above the water at 500 feet with an unrivaled… Continue Reading YOLO Adventures