Winter Park Scenic Boat Tour, founded in 1938 and is located just 15 minutes north of downtown Orlando, is one of those wonderful side trips that combine beautiful scenery, a bit of local history, some close to flora exposure and fauna for a relaxing walk in slow moving pontoon boat with 18 passengers, all complete with expert (and sometimes humorous) narration provided by the boat captain.
The route leads through three lakes: Lake Osceola, Lage Virginia and Lake Maitland. In this beautiful day with a clear sky, the boat had hundreds of beautiful water to farms in the past, much of which was originally built in 1920 and originally sold for $ 20,000 when you search for between $ 500,000 and several million Center in Florida real estate market booming now. Even Raccoons are worth between $ 30,000 and $ 40,000.
In Lake Virginia we came near the base of Rollins College, one of the largest listed private humanities colleges in South East, USA, founded in 1885 by New England Congregationalists. Rollins College is the oldest recognized college in Florida, in a small student body of 1,700 students, housed in a beautiful Renaissance Mediterraean 70 acre campus. Use our expert captain / tour said university records is $ 38,000, and the ratio of students to teachers is 12:01.
The apartment is located near the university, for sale from $ 450,000 to $ 1 million. As we approached the narrow Venetian canal, we would have from Lake Virginia to Lake Maitland, our captain reminded us all interesting vegetation growing along the canal: Egyptian papyrus, Spanish moss (airplant and parasitic) bougainvillea flowers Princess and resurrection ferns. We saw many birds, including osprey, bird snake, Great Blue Heron and white egret, a bird that luck every Seminole Indians.
Lake Maitland knew that alligator cave that has attracted 150 alligators in the Everglades of Florida to avoid a dangerous collision between nature and civilization.
After Venice Canal also saw, banana and ginger varied so slowly passed under the Arch of Palmer Avenue bridge. Philodendron, palmgrass bamboo plant called firespikes and interesting arrangement of “air potatoes”, round tubers hanging from the branch of a tree, decorate our trip through the canal.
450 acres and 30 feet deep, Lake Maitland is the largest of the three lakes in the boat. Firewall controls the water level and, interestingly, all drainage lakes in northern San Juan River, which flows into the Atlantic Ocean near Jacksonville. Kraft Azalea Gardens, located on Lake Maitland disk Alabama Palmer Avenue, contains thousands of azaleas, tropical shrubs and trees. The azaleas are in full bloom in January-March.
Our expert captain noted also several villas that were used as a backdrop in many films and commercials. Lake Maitland also has several small islands bare trees instead of searching for colonies of cormorants, birds, fishing houses that consume up to one kilogram of fish per day.
Slowly, we made Way Back from Lake Maitland to Lake Osceola where our boat ended peaceful and picturesque. This day was a great trip fabulous provide a historical context for exploring the beautiful town of Winter Park.
Winter Park scenic boat trip to the institution of nearly 70 years, at the end of Morse Avenue, Lake Osceola. This is a very affordable trip at $ 8 for adults and $ 4 for children (children under 2 years are free). Cruises run daily 10:00 to 4:00 (excluding holidays). For more information, contact the Winter Park Scenic Boat Tour.