Trip Overview
Leave winter’s blast behind, grab your binoculars, and head to Central Florida for a week of serious birding, playful paddles, and a trip to the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. Your home base will be the cabins located at Blue Springs State Park — the epicenter of coastal and Central Florida birding. Each day will include a short passenger-van drive to one of many aquatic habitats — swamps, bayous, estuaries, rivers, and springs; the main activity will be birding, but we will also take time to kayak, hike, swim, and snorkel. Spare time at Blue Springs can be filled with hiking; walking to the boardwalk that overlooks the warm waters, where over 200 manatees wintered last year; or reading in a rocking chair on the screen porch of your cabin. The pace throughout will be relaxed enough for plenty of birding, sightseeing, nature walks, and just sitting back and reflecting. Enjoy a different birding experience every day and return each night to the comfort of your cabin.
