Inside Calusa Nature Center & Planetarium
Enjoy this short documentary that explored the team of Calusa Nature Center back in the summer of 2016.
You can visit Calusa Nature Center today, and it's open 7 days a week. It's located right at the intersection of Ortiz Ave and Colonial Blvd, in Fort Myers FL
Calusa Nature Center - Fort Myers Florida - Please help us build a new aviary!
Help us build a new aviary for our birds of the Calusa Nature Center. The condition of the aviary has deteriorated over the years and funding must be raised to build a new facility by April. The aviary appeal has a 100% match fund thanks to the generosity of the Philips family!
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Opossum Removal & Release - Calusa Nature Center - Fort Myers Florida Wildlife Relocation
Opossum Release at the Calusa Nature Center. I know, same music! It's difficult to find songs without violating copyrights!
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Calusa Nature center butterfly garden
HorrorWalkYOUTUBE edit Fort Myers Florida
Commericial I created for the local Haunted Walk. Here in Fort Myers Florida. The show is the same time of year again. so go check it out. The event supports Calusa Nature Center and it's nature grounds and animals.
Places to see in ( Fort Myers - USA )
Places to see in ( Fort Myers - USA )
Fort Myers or Ft. Myers, is the county seat and commercial center of Lee County, Florida, United States. Fort Myers is a gateway to the Southwest Florida region and a major tourist destination within Florida. The winter estates of Thomas Edison (Seminole Lodge) and Henry Ford (The Mangoes) are major attractions. The city is named after Colonel Abraham Myers.
Spain originally had colonial influence in Florida, succeeded by Great Britain and, lastly, the United States. During the American Indian Wars of the 1830s, the United States built Fort Myers as one of the first forts along the Caloosahatchee River; it was used as a base of operations against the Seminole. During the Seminole Wars and Indian Removal period, Fort Myers was a strategic location, with access to Atlantic waterways. While many Seminole were forced to remove to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River, others used their knowledge of the Everglades and Florida wilderness to resist the Americans. They were never defeated and two federally recognized Seminole tribes still control some of their historic territory.
In 1947, Mina Edison deeded Seminole Lodge to the City of Fort Myers, in memory of her late husband and for the enjoyment of the public. By 1988, the adjacent Henry Ford winter estate was purchased by the city and opened for public tours in 1990. The combined properties today are known as the Edison and Ford Winter Estates.
Points of interest in Fort Myers :
The Calusa Nature Center and Planetarium is a private, not-for-profit, environmental education organization. Set on a 105-acre (0.42 km2) site, it has a museum, three nature trails, a planetarium, butterfly and bird aviaries, a gift shop and meeting and picnic areas.
City of Palms Park, former home of the Boston Red Sox spring training program, close to downtown Fort Myers.
Edison and Ford Winter Estates
Edison Mall
Historic Downtown, waterfront entertainment district
Murphy-Burroughs House
Imaginarium Science Center
Southwest Florida Museum of History
( Fort Myers - USA ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Fort Myers . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Fort Myers - USA
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Fountain Cottages Inn - Fort Myers Hotels, Florida
Fountain Cottages Inn 2 Stars Fort Myers Hotels, Florida Within US Travel Directory Situated in Fort Myers, Florida, this motel features an outdoor pool and simply furnished guest rooms. Gulf Harbour is 5 minutes’ drive from the motel.
Cable TV and free WiFi are available in all rooms at the Fountain Cottages Inn. Each room is decorated in soft colours and wood furniture. Studios feature a kitchenette with hob.Launderette facilities are available at the motel. Free parking is possible on site.Estero Bay Preserve State park is 15 minutes’ drive from Fountain Cottages Inn. Calusa Nature Center and Planetarium is less than 25 minutes’ drive away.
Hotel Location :
Fountain Cottages Inn, 14621 McGregor Boulevard FL 33908, USA
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Higher education[edit]
Institutions of higher learning in the city include:
Hodges University
Keiser University[36]
Nova Southeastern University[37]
Rasmussen College[38]
Southern Technical College
Fort Myers Technical College[39]
Florida Gulf Coast University
Libraries[edit]
See: Lee County Library System for other libraries in the county.
Library Services include:
Fort Myers Regional Library
Dunbar-Jupiter Hammon Public Library: The library officially opened on October 7, 1974. The founders named the library Jupiter Hammon Public Library in honor of the first African poet to have his work published. Dunbar, the community's name, was added at the request of its residents. The library was moved in 1996 to its current location at 3095 Blount Street. It is home to the largest African-American book collection in Southwest Florida.[40]
Sports[edit]
City of Palms Classic[edit]
The City of Palms Classic is an annual high school basketball tournament held in Fort Myers, Florida, since 1973. Several of its alumni have made it to the NBA.
Points of interest[edit]
Murphy-Burroughs House
The Calusa Nature Center and Planetarium[41] is a private, not-for-profit, environmental education organization. Set on a 105-acre (0.42 km2) site, it has a museum, three nature trails, a planetarium, butterfly and bird aviaries, a gift shop and meeting and picnic areas.
City of Palms Park, former home of the Boston Red Sox spring training program, close to downtown Fort Myers.
Edison and Ford Winter Estates
Edison Mall
Historic Downtown, waterfront entertainment district
Murphy-Burroughs House
Imaginarium Science Center
Southwest Florida Museum of History
Public transportation[edit]
Buses run by LeeTran provide local service in Fort Myers.[42]
Fort Myers in popular culture[edit]
In film[edit]
The abandoned city scene with the Edison Theatre, from the movie Day of the Dead (1985) was filmed in downtown Fort Myers.[43]
Some courthouse and other city scenes in Just Cause (1995) were filmed in downtown Ft. Myers.[44]
Part of the independent film Trans (1999) was filmed in Fort Myers, Florida.[45]
In print[edit]
Fort Myers is part of the setting of Red Grass River: A Legend (1998), an award-winning novel by James Carlos Blake[46]
Notable people[edit]
Travelodge Fort Myers Airport - Fort Myers Hotels, Florida
Travelodge Fort Myers Airport 2 Stars Fort Myers Hotels, Florida Within US Travel Directory Located off Interstate 75, this Fort Myers hotel offers rooms with free Wi-Fi and a cable TV. A shuttle is available to Southwest Florida International Airport, just 9.8 km away.A work desk and coffee maker are provided in all rooms at the Travelodge Fort Myers Airport. Each room offers simple décor and includes a clock radio.A continental breakfast is served each morning at this hotel.Guests are welcome to use the laundry facilities located on site at the Fort Myers Airport Travelodge. The hotel staff is available around the clock at the 24-hour front desk.Legends Golf and Country Club is just 3.7 km from this hotel, and the Calusa Nature Center and Planetarium is 10.1 km away. Shopping at the Edison Mall is about a 15-minute drive away.
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Travelodge Fort Myers Airport, 13661 Indian Paint Lane FL 33912, USA
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Segment 2 Silverspot Cinema Calusa Planetarium
Segment 2
Silverspot Cinema
Calusa Planetarium
May Camelopardalids 2014 - Watch Earthgrazer meteor streak through night sky
Watch Earthgrazer meteor streak through night sky:
This basketball-sized meteor that streaked through the skies of the southern United States Friday night is called an Earthgrazer, according to NASA.
Coming to a circumpolar constellation near you: An all-new, never-before-seen, awkwardly named meteor shower that just might knock your astronomical socks off.
It's called the Camelopardalid meteor shower, and unlike annual showers such as the Perseids and Leonids that have been occurring for hundreds or thousands of years, it will occur for the first time the night of May 23 and early morning of May 24.
A meteor shower happens when the Earth passes through debris left in space by a comet (the Perseids, for example, are debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle); the debris, little chunks of rock and other material, burns up in the atmosphere to form what some people call shooting or falling stars.
The Camelopardalids will be debris from Comet 209P/LINEAR, a very dim comet that orbits the sun every five years. The comet was discovered in 2004 by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project, a partnership of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, NASA and the U.S. Air Force.
But while the Earth has been passing through Swift-Tuttle debris to create the Perseids for thousands of years (the first written account of the shower was in 36 A.D.), this will be the first time the Earth has passed through Comet 209P/LINEAR's leftovers.
Meteor showers vary in intensity: Some produce more meteors than others, and some years a particular meteor shower is better than other years.
It all depends on how much debris the Earth passes through, and some astronomers are predicting that all of Comet 209P/LINEAR's debris trails from 1803 through 1924 will intersect Earth's orbit, so the Camelopardalid meteor shower will be a meteor storm producing hundreds of meteors per hour.
So, how good will it be?
That's always a good question, more so with this meteor shower because it's the first time we're seeing it, said Rich Talcott, senior editor of Astronomy magazine. Over the past 15 or 20 years, astronomers have done a very good job at figuring out, 'OK, here's where the debris streams will lie.' I'm thinking the odds are pretty good we'll get something nice May 24.
Meteor showers are named for the constellation from which the meteors seem to radiate. That point is known as the radiant, and radiant for the Camelopardalids will be the constellation Camelopardalis (the giraffe).
Camelopardalis is a circumpolar constellation, which means that, rather than moving from east to west across the night sky, it goes around Polaris, the North Star, so it's up all night.
It's also easy to find because it's close to the Big Dipper and Little Dipper, two easily recognizable constellations.
The meteor shower will be easier to view in the South, says Carol Stewart, astronomer at the Calusa Nature Center and Planetarium in Fort Myers, Fla.
In Southwest Florida, we have an advantage over Northern latitudes because the meteors will come in at us from a lower altitude, she said. Those are called 'Earth-grazers,' and they're longer-lasting and run farther across the sky.
Aside from clouds, a meteor watcher's worst enemy is a bright moon, which can wash out all but the brightest meteors.
On the night of May 23, however, the moon is not present, and it doesn't rise until 3:41 a.m. May 24. When it does rise, it will be a waning crescent, so it won't affect the meteor shower.
Astronomers predict peak activity for the shower will be from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. May 24, but Stewart will be looking at a wider window.
They could start as soon as it gets dark the night of the 23rd, she said. I'm going to go out and check every hour. We don't know because this is the first time, and I don't want to miss it.
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May Camelopardalids 2014 - Watch Earthgrazer meteor streak through night sky
Watch Earthgrazer meteor streak through night sky:
This basketball-sized meteor that streaked through the skies of the southern United States Friday night is called an Earthgrazer, according to NASA.
Coming to a circumpolar constellation near you: An all-new, never-before-seen, awkwardly named meteor shower that just might knock your astronomical socks off.
It's called the Camelopardalid meteor shower, and unlike annual showers such as the Perseids and Leonids that have been occurring for hundreds or thousands of years, it will occur for the first time the night of May 23 and early morning of May 24.
A meteor shower happens when the Earth passes through debris left in space by a comet (the Perseids, for example, are debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle); the debris, little chunks of rock and other material, burns up in the atmosphere to form what some people call shooting or falling stars.
The Camelopardalids will be debris from Comet 209P/LINEAR, a very dim comet that orbits the sun every five years. The comet was discovered in 2004 by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project, a partnership of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, NASA and the U.S. Air Force.
But while the Earth has been passing through Swift-Tuttle debris to create the Perseids for thousands of years (the first written account of the shower was in 36 A.D.), this will be the first time the Earth has passed through Comet 209P/LINEAR's leftovers.
Meteor showers vary in intensity: Some produce more meteors than others, and some years a particular meteor shower is better than other years.
It all depends on how much debris the Earth passes through, and some astronomers are predicting that all of Comet 209P/LINEAR's debris trails from 1803 through 1924 will intersect Earth's orbit, so the Camelopardalid meteor shower will be a meteor storm producing hundreds of meteors per hour.
So, how good will it be?
That's always a good question, more so with this meteor shower because it's the first time we're seeing it, said Rich Talcott, senior editor of Astronomy magazine. Over the past 15 or 20 years, astronomers have done a very good job at figuring out, 'OK, here's where the debris streams will lie.' I'm thinking the odds are pretty good we'll get something nice May 24.
Meteor showers are named for the constellation from which the meteors seem to radiate. That point is known as the radiant, and radiant for the Camelopardalids will be the constellation Camelopardalis (the giraffe).
Camelopardalis is a circumpolar constellation, which means that, rather than moving from east to west across the night sky, it goes around Polaris, the North Star, so it's up all night.
It's also easy to find because it's close to the Big Dipper and Little Dipper, two easily recognizable constellations.
The meteor shower will be easier to view in the South, says Carol Stewart, astronomer at the Calusa Nature Center and Planetarium in Fort Myers, Fla.
In Southwest Florida, we have an advantage over Northern latitudes because the meteors will come in at us from a lower altitude, she said. Those are called 'Earth-grazers,' and they're longer-lasting and run farther across the sky.
Aside from clouds, a meteor watcher's worst enemy is a bright moon, which can wash out all but the brightest meteors.
On the night of May 23, however, the moon is not present, and it doesn't rise until 3:41 a.m. May 24. When it does rise, it will be a waning crescent, so it won't affect the meteor shower.
Astronomers predict peak activity for the shower will be from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. May 24, but Stewart will be looking at a wider window.
They could start as soon as it gets dark the night of the 23rd, she said. I'm going to go out and check every hour. We don't know because this is the first time, and I don't want to miss it.
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Haunted Tours of Fort Myers
Haunted Tours of Fort Myers
Dunedin Florida Museum Tour 2018
The Museum is located in beautiful downtown Dunedin, Florida in the historic old train station. Please come on by and see the history of Dunedin all in one place. Its Free for all Dunedin residents until Oct. 1, 2018, after that there is small fee for entrance.
Prairie Pines Preserve in Fort Myers
Prairie Pines Preserve is a huge park. Many size trails for short strolls or major 9 miles hikes. Rare park that allows dogs. Preserve is located on US41 just before tuckers grade off ramp from I75.
May Camelopardalids Meteor Shower and Fireballs; Images and Videos From Comet 209P/LINEAR
First-ever Camelopardalid meteor shower to begin Friday night.
Watch Earthgrazer meteor streak through night sky: This basketball-sized meteor that streaked through the skies of the southern United States Friday night is called an Earthgrazer, according to NASA.
Coming to a circumpolar constellation near you: An all-new, never-before-seen, awkwardly named meteor shower that just might knock your astronomical socks off.
It's called the Camelopardalid meteor shower, and unlike annual showers such as the Perseids and Leonids that have been occurring for hundreds or thousands of years, it will occur for the first time the night of May 23 and early morning of May 24.
A meteor shower happens when the Earth passes through debris left in space by a comet (the Perseids, for example, are debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle); the debris, little chunks of rock and other material, burns up in the atmosphere to form what some people call shooting or falling stars.
The Camelopardalids will be debris from Comet 209P/LINEAR, a very dim comet that orbits the sun every five years. The comet was discovered in 2004 by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project, a partnership of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, NASA and the U.S. Air Force.
But while the Earth has been passing through Swift-Tuttle debris to create the Perseids for thousands of years (the first written account of the shower was in 36 A.D.), this will be the first time the Earth has passed through Comet 209P/LINEAR's leftovers.
Meteor showers vary in intensity: Some produce more meteors than others, and some years a particular meteor shower is better than other years.
It all depends on how much debris the Earth passes through, and some astronomers are predicting that all of Comet 209P/LINEAR's debris trails from 1803 through 1924 will intersect Earth's orbit, so the Camelopardalid meteor shower will be a meteor storm producing hundreds of meteors per hour.
So, how good will it be?
That's always a good question, more so with this meteor shower because it's the first time we're seeing it, said Rich Talcott, senior editor of Astronomy magazine. Over the past 15 or 20 years, astronomers have done a very good job at figuring out, 'OK, here's where the debris streams will lie.' I'm thinking the odds are pretty good we'll get something nice May 24.
Meteor showers are named for the constellation from which the meteors seem to radiate. That point is known as the radiant, and radiant for the Camelopardalids will be the constellation Camelopardalis (the giraffe).
Camelopardalis is a circumpolar constellation, which means that, rather than moving from east to west across the night sky, it goes around Polaris, the North Star, so it's up all night.
It's also easy to find because it's close to the Big Dipper and Little Dipper, two easily recognizable constellations.
The meteor shower will be easier to view in the South, says Carol Stewart, astronomer at the Calusa Nature Center and Planetarium in Fort Myers, Fla.
In Southwest Florida, we have an advantage over Northern latitudes because the meteors will come in at us from a lower altitude, she said. Those are called 'Earth-grazers,' and they're longer-lasting and run farther across the sky.
Aside from clouds, a meteor watcher's worst enemy is a bright moon, which can wash out all but the brightest meteors.
On the night of May 23, however, the moon is not present, and it doesn't rise until 3:41 a.m. May 24. When it does rise, it will be a waning crescent, so it won't affect the meteor shower.
Astronomers predict peak activity for the shower will be from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. May 24, but Stewart will be looking at a wider window.
They could start as soon as it gets dark the night of the 23rd, she said. I'm going to go out and check every hour. We don't know because this is the first time, and I don't want to miss it.
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Are you ready for the total solar eclipse? On National Moon Day, Taste and See SWFL heads to the Cal
We celebrate National Moon Day with a trip to the planetarium to get ready for this summer's total solar eclipse