As part of the first Ultimate Florida Challenge, Warren Richey kayaked 1,200 miles around Florida in 30 days. He described it in Without a Paddle (St. Martin’s Press, $25), a heartfelt, inspiring memoir about a 50-year-old dad also emerging from divorce.
A reporter who once worked for the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Richey was caught off [...]

 
 
South Florida Adventures is all about getting your heart pumping fast, just like when reading thrillers and mysteries. Here are June’s best sellers at Murder on the Beach, a Delray Beach bookstore specializing in the genre.
No. 1 on the hardcover list is James O’Neal, a resident of Lake Worth in Palm Beach County.
Hardcovers
1. The Double [...]

 
Every day hundreds of cyclists pedal over the Rickenbacker Causeway connecting Miami to Key Biscayne, joined by more runners and pedestrians. Often it feels like Russian roulette, and sometimes athletes do get killed or injured.
Miami-Dade County is finally proposing a $4.5 million plan to calm speeding automobiles along the way. The plan sets aside 25 [...]

 
Ahmed Lopez, who cycled for Cuba’s Olympic team but now lives in Hialeah, won the recent Florida State Spring Championships at Brian Piccolo Park in Cooper City.
Lopez set a record of 10.73 seconds for 200 meters in the seeding time trial at the park’s velodrome and prevailed in a series of elimination races to earn [...]

 
Yesterday workers with federal, state and non-governmental agencies removed a pair of six-week-old bald eaglets from a nest near two Herbert Hoover Dike Rehabilitation Project sites in Palm Beach County, according to a statement from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The Corps claims that relocating the eaglets allows it to maintain construction momentum in the [...]

 
Mares Diving, a division of HEAD USA, has announced the relocation of Mares Diving USA headquarters to Boca Raton as of April 5.
The Mares Diving division customer service, marketing and logistics currently located in Norwalk, Conn. is moving here under the direction of national sales manager Steve Lamphear.
“In order to build upon our goal of [...]

 
Two Palm Beach County men were airboating in an Everglades canal on Monday when one saw a snake he recognized.
The Miami Herald’s outdoor writer Susan Cocking describes their encounter. “Having completed a ‘Pythons 101’ crash course given by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission less than an hour earlier, Vasquez recognized it as a [...]

 
The National Park Service has reopened the historic Nike Hercules Missile Base HM-69 in Everglades National Park for hiking tours. They were first offered in 2009.
Ranger-guided tours bring park visitors through one of Florida’s best preserved relics of the Cold War. According to a statement from the park, “This significant historical site is physically the best [...]

 
Nova Southeastern University’s Oceanographic Center recently received $15 million in federal stimulus money to build the country’s largest coral reef research center, according to a statement from the university.
The 86,000-square-foot Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Ecosystems Science Research Facility will house local, national and international coral reef research. The facility will be located at [...]

 
From now until March, guided swamp walks are being offered off the Tamiami Trail, behind the Big Cypress Gallery of renowned Everglades photographer Clyde Butcher. Naturalist Rick Cruz guides a walk at 10 a.m. and another at 2 p.m. every Saturday. The cost is $75 per person, which includes a $25 credit in the gallery. [...]