Here are some updates to the Florida travel book:

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ORLANDO UPDATES

C – Orlando, Crayola Experience

• SE – Miami. Jungle Island announced today the opening of a family-friendly TreeWalk Village and thematic playground.
• TreeWalk Village and thematic playground additions are designed to connect the park’s tropical surroundings and wildlife with journeys reminiscent of a jungle adventure. Children and parents can climb from treehouse to treehouse through hammock nets and wooden bridges. There are five 19-foot-tall giant treehouses that guests can explore. The playground provides a spiderweb climb, climbing ropes, rock climbing, a balance beam, a slide and wooden bridges.
• Aerial Adventure Park will span six-acres overlooking the Miami Skyline and Biscayne Bay, and feature a series of kids and adults courses, with over 50 obstacles that vary in difficulty for all skill levels.
• Flying Squirrel indoor trampoline park, equipped with multiple interconnected trampolines, basketball hoops, dodgeball court, foam pits, Ninja course, laser maze and café; while a VR (Virtual Reality) Zone with four VR rooms, three extreme machines, and a state-of-the-art 5D cinema will transport guests into another universe.

CE – DAYTONA AQUARIUM & RAINFOREST ADVENTURE
Daytona Beach -1008 West International Speedway Blvd 32114 (I-95 exit 260, head east on International Speedway Blvd, just east of the Raceway) Phone: 386-241-3144 https://daytonaaquariumandrainforest.com/
The Daytona Aquarium & Rainforest Adventure will be opening in Daytona Beach in early 2024 and will be the destination’s first aquarium offering an interactive educational experience featuring animals from both land and sea. The 55,000-square foot facility will be located on the northwest corner of International Speedway Blvd. and Nova Road in the heart of Daytona Beach. Plans for the aquarium include close to 40 separate tanks including a 110,000 gallon shark tank and a stingray touch pool. There will also be habitats for alligators and crocodiles, frogs and snakes and an indoor rainforest with bushes, trees, rocks, sloths, armadillos and various types of birds

CLOSED

CW – Big Cat Rescue – All of our cats have moved to Turpentine Creek Wildlife Reserve in Arkansas so that we can focus on keeping cats from going extinct in the wild.  To read details about the move and our future plans see bigcatrescue.org/moving.  We encourage you to visit our cats and many others at TCWR https://www.turpentinecreek.org/plan-your-trip/buy-tickets/

C – Kissimmee, Green Meadows Petting Farm

C – Orlando, Holyland Experience

C – Orlando, Wycliffe Discovery Center

CE – Cocoa, Astronaut Memorial Planetarium and Observatory

CE – St. Cloud, Forever Florida/Crescent J Ranch

NC – Tallahassee, Andrews Capital Grill

NE – St Augustine, Barnacle Bills

SE – Ft Lauderdale, Maikai Polynesian Revue

SW – Bradenton, Mixon Fruit Farms