Canaveral National Seashore News

Chilly ocean water off the Georgia coast this week forced folks at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center on Jekyll Island to make a trip south this week with two young loggerhead turtles.

Those glossy, colorful tourism brochures lining the racks of local visitors centers and welcome kiosks and touting the beauty of Cocoa Beach's beaches or the Canaveral National Seashore wouldn't be possible without grants from the Brevard County Tourism Development Council.

Two kayakers lost in the Canaveral National Seashore were located Sunday night and guided to Edgewater by a sheriff's helicopter spotlight, a coast guard officer said.

Sharks rarely attack people. The odds of a shark bite are roughly one in every 11.5 million times a person visits a beach, according to the International Shark Attack File.

Complaints spur review of arrests Woman pleads no contest to lewd battery on teen Daytona Beach woman dies after fire Beach vendors suing Volusia U.S. parks facts 1872: Year the first national park, Yellowstone, was created 58: Number of official national parks 391: Total properties in the park system, including seashores, preserves, monuments, ...

Enjoy a day at the beach for free today. It's not just any beach, but the miles of sand and wetlands at Canaveral National Seashore.

In this Aug. 24 photo provided by Seaworld Orlando, an endangered loggerhead sea turtle hatchling is shown.

A slight increase in loggerhead turtle nests on Florida beaches last year had turtle experts hopeful they might see an end to years of dwindlingnesting.

Canaveral National Seashore is going to receive federal stimulus money to replace its roughly 30-year-old visitor's center, a deteriorated modular building that was originally intended for temporary use.

Is this observation deck at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore perched on a perched dune? Bob Janiskee photo.

They are an unlikely group of campaigners: victims of shark attacks, who want to stop the predators being hunted to extinction Shark attack survivors have joined together to demand better protection of this fearsome predator from overfishing - and to try to calm the hysteria that greets each of the 40 or so shark attacks that occur in the US every ...

Kelli Miller, from Kansas, arrived at Space View Park at 8 a.m. and snagged her family a front-row seat to view the launch.

A cluster of people gathered at Canaveral National Seashore Tuesday morning to watch a Loggerhead sea turtle named Cluster be released back into the ocean.

July 1, 2009 Michelle Coats, APR Community Information Specialist Marine Science Center to release sub-adult loggerhead sea turtle July 7 Marine Science Center rehabilitation team members are planning the release of a sub-adult loggerhead sea turtle called Cluster at 11 a.m. Tuesday, July 7 . The beachside release will be at Canaveral National ...

The Rev. Francis J. Browne, pastor of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in New Smyrna Beach, had two passions -- fly-fishing and the priesthood.

A recent insurance company commercial tells us how the recession actually may be good for the soul, nudging us into rediscovering the wonderful things around us.