Find out all the kids' activities in Fernandina Beach and Amelia Island as well as children's events in Yulee, St. Marys, Kingsland and more.
I never would have expected life-sized dinosaurs to be able to hide in the scenery, especially when I was looking for them. But the dinosaurs at Jacksonville Zoo and Garden’s DinoTrek blend into their “habitat” so well, my family often didn’t spot them until they were just a few feet away as we toured the [...]
With championship golf courses, a new putt-putt course and one of the most sought-after golf instructors in the country, Omni Amelia Island Plantation has the dream formula for a Junior Golf Camp. The resort’s new camp, making its debut this year, will enable kids to learn with their peers under the guidance of true pros, [...]
It’s incredible how many ways people can dress themselves up as giant shrimp. I marvel at this every year at the Fernandina Beach Shrimp Festival Pirate Parade, a longtime tradition that the whole town — and many out of towners — turn out to watch. The only costumes to rival the shrimp are the many, [...]
There is a house in Hilliard that literally appears to dance during the holidays as its 60,000 lights move to Christmas music. We took the drive to the house, set on a quiet dead end street near Hilliard Elementary School, and soon we were parked in a line of at least a dozen cars watching [...]
Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens is just gorgeous at night this month for its first-ever ZOOLights, a celebration of the holidays in which visitors can visit the zoo at night and admire the lights. In addition to Christmas lights throughout the zoo, there is also a nightly snowfall (at 8 p.m.), Santa and Mrs. Claus, bounce [...]
It’s fitting that the first exhibit you see when you walk into Jacksonville’s Museum of Science and History is a giant, gaping human mouth, because visitors’ mouths will often be dropping open in the same way as they make new discoveries throughout this fabulous museum. The MOSH fascinates every age group, from the preschoolers who come [...]
The first time my husband and I went kayaking together, we took a romantic tour of the bay in the Outer Banks. That went down as my favorite kayak adventure — until a recent Sunday, when we set out from Little Talbot Island with a third person — our 4-year-old — sitting between us. I [...]
Editor’s Note: Sadly, this business is no longer in operation. We wish you the best, One Stop Party Shop! A few years ago, I threw my son a Thomas the Tank Engine birthday party, and finding the supplies was a task. We found napkins and plates in Walmart, but had to head all the [...]
There is only one place on this earth where you can see a 15-foot crocodile underwater, look into the pink eyes of an albino alligator and zip line above a park full of wild reptiles. The St. Augustine Alligator Farm and Zoological Park is well worth the trip from the Amelia Island area, offering your [...]
The real-life stories of Jacksonville’s Kingsley Plantation will change the way you think of America’s history with slavery forever. If you had asked me what I knew about slavery before I visited the plantation, I would have thought back to books I read in school and made-for-TV movies I’d seen. Now, I think of the [...]
