Pirate’s Cove Adventure Golf in Yarmouth features waves, waterfalls, sunken ships, and, of course, pirates everywhere in two, 18-hole pirate-themed miniature golf courses. Their great attention to detail makes this a true frolic.

Just east of Fort Cascades is the Washington entrance to the Bonneville Dam Washington Shore Visitors Center. Open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. This complex offers an easily accessible view of the second powerhouse. There is an area 85 feet above the powerhouse floor where you can view the generators. Guided tours are offered daily.  Inside the fish-viewing building...

The Children’s Museum can be recommended for all ages. Pitched for a younger audience, it tells the story of India simply, which is ideal for first-time visitors to the country. Some of the exhibits look dated, but there have been recent additions, notably on the sun which not only manifests itself daily overhead but also in the presence of Surya,...

These strange objects in pinky-red stone are the work of the Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, the ruler and founder of the city of Jaipur in Rajasthan. Today the city’s skyscrapers surround them, but back in 1724 when they were built this area was just open countryside. They were built for astrological purposes to accurately determine local time, (then there...

This is one of Delhi’s better museums, informative, entertaining and well presented. The entrance is dominated by the Energy Ball where nylon balls are lifted up 20m and then randomly roll through different geometrical forms triggering an organ, xylophone, pendulum, trolley and wheels as they descend. The objective is to demonstrate the conversion of energy from one form to another....

You get three museums for the price of one, in fact for no price, as this is a free museum.  Anandagram is an artist village complex, spread over eight acres 10km south of central Delhi. This is a museum brilliantly presented and a total contrast to the dusty behemoths like the National Museum and the Museum of National History (now sadly burnt down). Sanskriti Museum...

Denver’s Children’s Museum is a playground filled with a mix of activities designed to entertain and to educate. The exhibits are for babies to eight-year-olds, with a special Center for the Young Child designed for kids through age four. Exhibits range from Bubbles to The Box Canyon, where they can crawl over boulders and leap through a waterfall. You can...

If you’ve never experienced a mine tour, a 45 minute trip through the Cowboy Mine in Breckenridge, is fun and educational. Here you’ll get a sense of what it was like to be a miner in the early days. You can even slide down a 55-foot ore chute and pan for gold (finders keepers). Kids and adults love it. If...

Our natural environment comes alive at Our Dynamic Earth, mostly to teach kids what’s going on out there. It’s all about simulations: volcanic eruptions; ice ages; floor-shaking earth quakes; and monsoon deluges. There’s also lots of things to investigate and buttons to push with whizz-bang results. So most kids will love it, and their parents give it 4/5 stars on...

An exceptional museum of science with a focus on mathematics and astronomy. The collection of historical implements was started by Cosimo I in the 16th century, with additional pieces accumulated by his descendents and, later, members of the Lorraine dynasty. The displays include globes, telescopes, microscopes, barometers, thermometers, time pieces, compasses, sundials, and, oddly, a tooth and two fingers from...

Florida has more than 1.5 million alligators, many in the Everglades region. Yet the alligator remains a threatened species because of its similarity to the American salt water crocodile, which are estimated to number about 2,000. Female alligators grow to 10 feet in length. Male alligators are considerably larger, reaching 13 to 15 feet. Normally an alligator’s snout is broad,...

Compared to the alligator, the American crocodile is more lizard-shaped with a long and powerful tail and a narrow, triangular snout. A tooth on either side of the bottom jaw is visible when the jaw is closed. South Florida has an estimated population of 2,000 American crocodiles including the Everglades and Keys. A large 12-foot crocodile can run up to...

Also called water turkey, snake bird and snake darter, the anhinga is one of the Everglades most common and unusual birds. When swimming, only its snaky-looking long neck and head show above water. The rest of the body stays submerged. To feed, an anhinga dives underwater for considerable periods to spear fish with its long sharp beak. If successful, back...

This is a short slide show of what you can see along the Anhinga Trail. Advance the photos at the top of the page for just a few of the animals you might see. Be sure it go to the special Royal Palm Itinerary which features a detailed description of the Anhinga Trail. It is not an area to be...

An alligator sunning itself beside a walkway may seem so sluggish and lazy that you should be able to reach out, touch it and the animal wouldn’t notice. The animal is probably more alert than you can imagine.  Breach an alligator’s territorial boundaries and you could find yourself in a real predicament. Historically, alligator attacks are uncommon but the occasional...

On the Main Park Road, drive past the Flamingo Visitor Center and head toward the Flamingo Campground. Before reaching the campground, you’ll find Eco Pond located on the right. Park in the designated area. The half-mile (800 meter) loop goes around a fresh water pond that once was an exceptional spot for birding and photography. Unfortunately, many of the nesting...

Everglades City, sometimes called just “Everglades,” sits on the edge of the Ten Thousand Islands section of ENP. It is a destination in itself with interesting architectural and natural photo subjects. The current human population is just above 500, far from the city’s heyday when it expected to be a major financial center. The town really began in the early...

See the Everglades online and prepare your photo itinerary with the help of these webcams, podcasts and videos. Unfortunately, the Everglades NP and the National Park Service in general have a tendency to remove what should be evergreen links for videos, webcams and audio tours.  If a better version is made it should use the the same link for continuity...

Flamingo Campground is located at the end of the Main Park Road, 38 miles from the park’s main entrance. Fronting Florida Bay and close to the Flamingo Marina, Flamingo Campground is Homestead’s most requested camping site. Reservations are a must during the cooler winter season. Overall, there are 234 drive-in sites and 64 walk-up sites, with 55 campsites near Florida...

The Flamingo Visitor Center is located on a second story landing that once connected to the Flamingo Lodge Restaurant. Both the restaurant and lodge were heavily damaged by 2005 hurricanes and replacements have yet to reopen. The modest visitor center remains open most of the year but is staffed for only limited periods. Regular hours are held from mid-November through mid-April. No regular hours...