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WHERE:<\/strong>\u00a0Blue Spring State Park CONTACT:<\/strong>\u00a0Merilee Clifton COST:<\/strong>\u00a0$28 students; $30 adults<\/p>\n We will meet at 8:00 AM at Blue Spring State Park, 2100 W. French Ave., Orange City, FL 32763. Use www.mapquest.com<\/a> or www.googlemaps.com<\/a> for directions and driving time estimate from your home. Driving directions for the rest of the day will be provided upon your arrival. Our habitat survey will end at Lyonia Preserve in Deltona at 2:30 PM.<\/p>\n Field Trip of\u00a0Central Florida Habitats with Bill & Merilee Clifton from Science Partners beginning at\u00a0Blue Spring State Park in Orange City, FL and ending at\u00a0Lyonia Preserve in Deltona, FL.<\/p>","slug":"field-trip-orange-city-fl","image":{"url":"https:\/\/creationevents.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Science-Partners-logo.jpg","id":163469,"extension":"jpg","width":90,"height":90},"all_day":false,"start_date":"2018-11-16 08:00:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2018","month":"11","day":"16","hour":"08","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2018-11-16 14:30:00","end_date_details":{"year":"2018","month":"11","day":"16","hour":"14","minutes":"30","seconds":"00"},"utc_start_date":"2018-11-16 14:00:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2018","month":"11","day":"16","hour":"14","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2018-11-16 20:30:00","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2018","month":"11","day":"16","hour":"20","minutes":"30","seconds":"00"},"timezone":"America\/Chicago","timezone_abbr":"CST","cost":"","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"","currency_position":"","values":[]},"website":"","show_map":true,"show_map_link":true,"hide_from_listings":false,"sticky":false,"featured":false,"categories":[{"name":"Field Trips","slug":"field-trips","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":360,"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","description":"","parent":0,"count":180,"filter":"raw","id":360,"urls":{"self":"https:\/\/creationevents.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories\/360","collection":"https:\/\/creationevents.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories"}}],"tags":[{"name":"Bill and Merilee Clifton","slug":"bill-and-merilee-clifton","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":346,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":46,"filter":"raw","id":346,"urls":{"self":"https:\/\/creationevents.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/tags\/346","collection":"https:\/\/creationevents.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/tags"}}],"venue":{"id":165440,"author":"4","status":"publish","date":"2015-11-13 23:36:50","date_utc":"2015-11-14 05:36:50","modified":"2015-11-13 23:36:50","modified_utc":"2015-11-14 05:36:50","url":"https:\/\/creationevents.org\/venue\/blue-spring-state-park-orange-city-fl-2\/","venue":"Blue Spring State Park – Orange City, FL","slug":"blue-spring-state-park-orange-city-fl-2","address":"2100 W. French Ave.","city":"Orange City","country":"United States","state":"FL","zip":"32763","website":"N\/A","stateprovince":"FL","geo_lat":28.9523085,"geo_lng":-81.3336643,"json_ld":{"@type":"Place","name":"Blue Spring State Park – Orange City, FL","description":"","url":"https:\/\/creationevents.org\/venue\/blue-spring-state-park-orange-city-fl-2\/","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","streetAddress":"2100 W. French Ave.","addressLocality":"Orange City","addressRegion":"FL","postalCode":"32763","addressCountry":"United States"},"geo":{"@type":"GeoCoordinates","latitude":28.9523085,"longitude":-81.3336643},"telephone":"","sameAs":"N\/A"},"show_map":true,"show_map_link":true,"global_id":"creationevents.org?id=165440","global_id_lineage":["creationevents.org?id=165440"]},"organizer":[{"id":39633,"author":"4","status":"publish","date":"2014-09-11 00:59:47","date_utc":"2014-09-11 05:59:47","modified":"2018-02-21 12:06:19","modified_utc":"2018-02-21 18:06:19","url":"https:\/\/creationevents.org\/organizer\/bill-merilee-clifton\/","organizer":"Science Partners","description":"
\n2100 W. French Ave.
\nOrange City, FL 32763<\/p>\n
\n407-808-4458
\nsciencepartners@cfl.rr.com<\/p>\n
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Join Bill and Merilee Clifton – creationists, authors, Florida Master Naturalists, and science educators – as we explore Central Florida Habitats, observing plants and animals that were specifically designed to live in them. Our day begins at Blue Spring State Park (Orange City), home to several habitats including hammock, marsh, swamp, flatwoods, and sand pine scrub. We will cruise the St. Johns River aboard a hands-on, floating science laboratory! We\u2019ll test the river water for temperature, salinity, and turbidity. We\u2019ll dip, collect, and identify marine specimens. And, we\u2019ll enjoy our captain\u2019s narrated introduction to the wildlife and vegetation of this fragile ecosystem. We\u2019ll keep a look out for manatees, alligators, otters, snakes, deer, turtles, birds, and more. Students will have the opportunity to earn a Jr. Birding Certificate in the \u201cWings over Florida\u201d program of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. After our cruise, we\u2019ll hike the boardwalk through the lush hammock along Blue Spring Run as we look for endangered manatees near the head of the springs. Back at the picnic pavilion, we\u2019ll see a manatee skull and rib, and Mr. Clifton will teach us about manatees from a creationist perspective. Then, we\u2019re off to Lyonia Preserve in Deltona where we will take a short hike into a scrub habitat looking for one of Florida\u2019s rarest and most threatened birds, the Florida scrub-jay. We\u2019ll learn about plants and animals created for the scrub habitat and contrast them with plants and animals of other habitats. We’ll also visit Lyonia Environmental Center and learn much from its educational displays and exhibits.<\/p>","excerpt":"
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