Pictures of the Charlotte Harbor Regional Nature Festival at the Charlotte Country Sports Park in Port Charlotte, Florida

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Welcome
to
The Charlotte Harbor
Nature Festival

This event was held on November 3, 2007 at the Charlotte County Sports Park
on SR 776 in Port Charlotte, Florida

All the exhibitors and programs showcased the natural wonders and treasures of the SW Florida
environment, so that we could all learn about the role we play in protecting our region's natural beauty.

The Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program is pleased to sponsor the eighth annual festival.
A day to explore, learn and enjoy the natural environment of SW Florida and "Connect with Nature".

The nature photographs presented here are in the approximate order that I took them.

Enjoy

Brought to you by the
Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program

Visit their web site at
www./CHNEP.org

There were acres of colorful red white and blue tents
set up to house the Nature Festival

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First stop was at the Charlotte Harbor National Estuaries Program booth where they were handing out lots of useful and interesting information plus tiny binoculars for kids and tote bags for adults.

My personal thanks for sponsoring these photo web pages which
will go on teaching people about Nature for years to come.

Want to help? Tell your friends about these great web sites !

www.CHNEP.org

www.EnglewoodBay.com

www.TheNatureofFlorida.com

Bobbi Rogers from the Cedar Point Environmental Park with her beach sunflower head dress was handing out information about Florida Friendly plants.

This Fire bush doesn't need very much water

Mangrove Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society
greeted visitors at the door and handed out literature. The Florida Native Plant Society promotes the preservation and conservation of the native plants and native plant communities of Florida. For more information you can find them on their web site at www.mangrove.fnpschapters.org

Free calendars and coloring books were at many of the booths

Dozens of Nature oriented items were raffled all day long...
with the proceeds going to CHNEP Below are just a few of the many donated items you could win.

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The Kids

There were tons of things for the kids to learn and do

Like cutting our paper houses and building a little
environmentally friendly paper town on the floor

Almost everything at the festival was kid touchable... which I think really makes it more fun for the kids to learn about nature

These kids are learning how to cut palm leaves
and weave them together into useful tools

There were arts and crafts of all types scattered around the festival

Mote Marine Lab was there with some very interesting things

This giant clam shell from the Pacific was so heavy
that it took two kids just to hold it

These Nine Armed Luidia were to display to show how one of these unique sea stars could swallow a sand dollar. Unfortunately the guy on top ate one that was too big to swallow

The spiny lobster shell is just a molt... When the lobster gets too big for his spiny shell he just backs out of the old one and a new one grows over top him

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Mote Marine also had a really great touch tank set up
close to the ground where kids could reach in the water
and touch these unique marine creatures

The only rules were that they had to keep the creatures in the water

Adults had a lot of things to see and do also. This booth
was run by the Charlotte Harbor Aquatic Preserve

US Coast Guard Auxiliary had useful information and handouts

Florida Department of Agriculture

Caloosahatchee River Watch

Peace River Center for Writers - www.peaceriverwriters.org

The teacher supply Depot features new and used school and crafts supplies FREE to all Charlotte County Public Schools. Located at 1445 Education Way Port Charlotte. You can help by donating many different new and used recyclable items... For more information call (941) 255-0808 x 3113

Thank you for visiting Nature Festival 2007

To see more pictures of this event...
just follow the page links below

And if you would like to see more of my pictures
of Florida nature... visit my newest photo web site at

www.TheNatureofFlorida.com

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Robert Shainline
P.O. Box 906
Cape Haze, FL 33946

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