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Our new luxury townhome with 5 bedrooms & 4 bathrooms (2x Masters with en-suites) will sleep 10 people in superb comfort. There is a well-equipped kitchen located adjacent to the dining area, with seating for 10. Flat screen TVs in every room, a multi-region DVD player and an Xbox are provided for your home entertainment. Free WiFi is also available. The property has its own private heated pool and patio area with a covered Lanai.

Located in one of Florida’s premier resorts, Paradise Palms is a gated community offering all the amenities you’d expect in a 5-star facility, including a pool, game room, fitness room and movie theatre. The grounds are beautifully landscaped and there is a poolside Tiki Bar and shop. The resort also offers a shuttle service to many of Orlando’s attractions at an additional fee.

Paradise Palms resort is just minutes away from Orlando’s main attractions. Walt Disney World is just a 10 minute drive and Universal Studios, Seaworld, Wet ‘n Wild, Legoland and other attractions are easily accessible. Highway 192 is just a couple of minutes away and here you will find an amazing range of grocery stores, other retailers, restaurants and bars.

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Florida Villas - Beaches – Panhandle

This is the second in a series of articles looking at the Floridian beaches. This article will focus on the beaches in the Panhandle.

Compared to the East and West coasts, the Panhandle is a lot less crowded, although that is starting to change over time. Panama City is probably the most popular and comes closest to beaches elsewhere in Florida, but the majority of the rest are much quieter, while still maintaining their beauty. Due to its location, the Panhandle is very popular with holiday makers from the Midwest, as driving to it is less daunting than to other parts of Florida. Similarly visitors from Canada can be found there in substantial number.

The Emerald Coast – which is made up of Destin and the Fort Walton region. Instead of the large villas and townhomes favoured in other parts of Florida, it is common to find small cottages here. The Victorian style community, Seaside, attracts many visitors due to its quaint, old-fashioned style while in reality only being a few decades old. Grayton Beach State Park is a point of local interest impressing with its natural beauty.

Pensacola – a tourist hotspot (in Panhandle terms at least), Pensacola can be found on Santa Rosa Island and contains a buzzing centre packed with bars, clubs, shops and restaurants. A quiet alternative to Pensacola can be found in the Gulf Islands Natural Seashore, in total made up of over 140 miles of shoreline, home to a vast array of bird species.

Panama City – as mentioned above, this is one the busiest of the Panhandle beaches, with fantastic beaches and a renowned diving scene. Be warned, during peak holiday times this place can get very busy!

There is more to Florida than just beaches try our article What is there to do in Florida?

Florida Wildlife - Sharks

Off Florida’s Coast

The warm seas off the coast of Florida are ideal territory for a wide range of sharks, and here we give a brief description of a few of the more common;

Bull Shark – commonly to be seen off both the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts of Florida, they are also unusually comfortable in freshwater and have been spotted hundreds of miles inland having travelled via the river system. They can grow to a maximum of 11-12 feet, and will live for 25 years or more, reaching maturity at around 14 years of age. They account for a high proportion of attacks on humans (around 30%) and are particularly persistent once an initial attack has taken place.

Blacktip Shark – Common off Florida’s coasts, they are an active species often appearing close to the surface or on occasion breaking the surface, completing a couple of spins before re-entering the water. Smaller (max 6 feet) and shorter lived (10 years) than the Bull Shark, it is also very popular for its commercial opportunities and has been known to attack bathers.

Great hammerhead Shark – larger than the other two species at around 20 feet, living for over 20 years, this species is also considered dangerous to humans ranking at number seven in the list of sharks attacks.

Tiger Shark – found in numbers off Florida’s coast, this species can grow to 18 feet, and is ranked just behind the Great White Shark for the number of attacks on humans worldwide.

Nurse Shark – a smaller (9 feet) shark which can usually be found moving slowly if not actually stationary on the sea bottom, where it finds the bulk of its food sources. Not normally implicated in attacks on humans, unless provoked.

Shark Attacks

Statistically, your chances of falling victim to a shark attack are vanishingly small, but this does not reduce peoples fear and fascination with the creatures. But if you are to suffer a shark attack Florida is the likeliest place on the planet with approaching 300 attacks in the 10 years leading up to 2013, with the coast around Daytona Beach being the focal point.

To minimise your risk of being attacked follow the advice from the experts at Florida State University;

Remain in groups as sharks prefer to pick on isolated individuals
Keep close to the shore
Stay out of the water during the night or dawn or dusk as sharks are particularly active then
Stay out of the water if you have a cut
Don’t wear brightly coloured clothing
Avoid splashing excessively as this will attract unwanted shark attention
Stay away from sandbanks and related sharp drops as these are favoured locations for sharks to patrol
Keep pets out of the water as they exhibit many of the dangerous behaviours described above

Florida Villas – Kennedy Space Center

The fourth of a series of features looking at some of the less well known attractions in Central Florida, accessible from Kissimmee.

Kennedy Space Center (KSC) can be found on Florida’s Atlantic coast, situated on Merritt Island halfway between Miami and Jacksonville, on what is known as Florida’s Space Coast. The world famous space center is about one hour leisurely drive from Orlando.

KSC was conceived and built as part of the Apollo manned Moon landing program, as a launch base for the Saturn V rockets, the enormous launch vehicles necessary to get the men and equipment off planet earth and heading towards the Moon. It was President John F. Kennedy who proposed the program in response to the space ambitions being demonstrated by the Soviet Union, but it was his successor President Lyndon B. Johnson who named the facility in JFK’s honour, following his death in 1963. JFK famously set the nation the challenge of landing an American on the Moon before the end of the decade (1960s), a challenge that was met in 1969, six years after his death.

Approaching the visitor centre there is an awe-inspiring array of the vehicles and equipment which have played such a major part in mankind’s first tentative steps into space, including the giant Vehicle Assembly Building which was the largest building (by volume) in the world when built in 1965 and still ranks fourth on that measure. The bus tours around the centre and the adjoining Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, which run from the visitor centre, are a must.

Back in the Visitor Complex is the Rocket Garden where it is possible to walk around many of the vehicles which made up the space exploration program. There are also a number of educational and entertainment attractions including flight simulations such as the Shuttle Launch Experience.

Newly arrived in 2013 is the Space Shuttle Atlantis, veteran of 33 space missions and a vibrant reminder of the amazing and at times tragic Space Shuttle program

Anyone interested in the space program or indeed America’s technological capabilities will get a great deal out a day spent at the Kennedy Space Centre.

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