Wild About Florida - South Florida
ISBN: 978-0-9798087-5-3
Global Authors Publications
Kathleen and Martin Walls
5.5 X 8.5 Trade Paperback
Color Book
Pgs: 104
Price: $16.99
Ebook version $9.99

Geography has dealt Florida a lavish hand when it comes to natural gifts. The Sunshine State is filled with unusual flora and fauna. South Florida is home to the endangered Florida panthers and the only North America crocodiles. The Everglades swarm with wildlife from birds such as wood storks, ibises, flamingos, roseate spoonbills and dozens of others to mammals such as black bears, bobcats, fox squirrels and raccoons. When it comes to reptiles, you will find more alligators than you ever dreamed of as well as gopher tortoises, caimans, green anoles, five lined skinks and hundreds of other snakes, turtles and lizards.  

Take a boat ride into the surrounding waters of the Atlantic or Gulf of Mexico, you will find dolphins dancing in your wake.  

Drop on down to Big Pine Key, which is the only place you can encounter the tiny Key deer in the wild. You will probably spot a few sun-loving iguanas as you island hop through the Keys. 

South Florida’s plant life is also abundant and rich. From the native mangroves, which are at the root of the food chain to the colorful exotic Brazilian pepper, which threatens native plant life but seems impossible to eradicate to the delicate wild orchids, which thrive on air alone, your senses will be overwhelmed by the color and variety.  

Then there are also all the refuges, preserves, parks and zoos that make South Florida a nature lover’s paradise. 

Wild About Florida- South Florida is a guide no outdoorsman- or woman- should be without. It lists those hard to find places and provides the inside scoop on those magnificent spots you might never find on your own. It portrays Florida’s wonders with original full color photographs.  

Of course, you will also want Wild About Florida – Central Florida and Wild About Florida – North Florida. Even if you are not living or visiting the Sunshine State, this series is a great way to glimpse the wondrous natural side of Florida.

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Wild About Florida - North Florida
ISBN: 978-0-9798087-9-1
Global Authors Publications
Kathleen and Martin Walls
5.5 X 8.5 Trade Paperback
Black and white photos
Pgs: 140
Price: $12.99

Come explore caves, hills, whitewater falls and lots of other fun things you didn’t expect to find in Florida. North Florida still lets you enjoy the sun and sand of Gulf and ocean beaches, you expect in the Sunshine State but there is so much more. The northern counties are totally different from their southern and central counterparts.

Wild About Florida: North Florida is the ultimate guide to eco-travel in Florida. Hike an aboveground cave at Florida Caverns State Park. Think you need to travel to the mountains for whitewater fun? You can find that right here in Florida at Big Shoals State Park offering the largest whitewater rapids in Florida. Looking for rare and exotic wildlife? How about the Sherman fox squirrels at Gold Head Branch State Park or the white squirrels at Ochlockonee River State Park?  Into reptiles? You can view white alligators at Saint Augustine Alligator Farm. And that just scratches the surface. This book will tell you when and where to find all the outdoor fun you can imagine in north Florida. Like its south Florida counterpart, it is a guide no outdoors person should be without. We also have some great black and white illustrations inside to help visualize the wild wonders of north Florida.

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Wild About Florida - Central Florida
ISBN: 978-0-9798087-1-5
Global Authors Publications
Kathleen and Martin Walls
5.5 X 8.5 Trade Paperback
Black and white photos
Pgs: 166
Price: $13.99

Central Florida has the ocean and gulf beaches much like other parts of Florida but in many other ways it is distinct and unique. The Florida scrub jay, a bird many Floridians believe should be our state bird, is found nowhere in the world except central Florida.

Central Florida is bisected by one of the most unique rivers in the in the state and perhaps even the world. First off, The St Johns is the longest river in Florida and the one of the few in the country to flow North. The total distance the river drops from its source in marshes southwest of Melbourne to its mouth in the Atlantic near Jacksonville is less than 30 feet, or about one inch per mile, making it one of the 'laziest', slowest moving rivers in the world. Also due to the fact that it is born in the salty estuary marshes of Indian River County, passes through salt springs and then receives an infusion of salt at the mouth, create a more brackish river. It's the only river in the county that is home to salt water sting rays.

Then there are the whooping cranes. There are only three whooping crane colonies in the United States. Central Florida's Polk, Osceola and Lake county is the home of the only non-migratory flock of whooping cranes. Citrus County is host to the ultralight-led migratory flock that winters in Chassohowitzka National Wildlife Refuge near Crystal River.

And then there is… but why not just read the rest of the book to discover all the things that are uniquely central Florida.