Outdoors

Carlie Coleman, 9, of Crawfordville, shot her first deer with her sidekick Daddy.
The buck was an 11 pointer and weighed 180 pounds.
Carlie, who attends Wakulla Christian School, was shining like a Christmas tree.
It was a great daddy-daughter moment to remember.

What brings tourists

Every year my staff and I travel to the Diving Equipment Manufacturing Association (which also includes dive travel) DEMA. We then drive on to visit suppliers all the way up to Washington State. Thousands of dive operations (stores, travel destinations, manufacturers, environmental groups and training agencies) all converge to inspect each other and promote their cause. Their displays fill a convention center for four days, spilling into the night with after hour meetings brokering deals and generally moving the industry forward.

The Florida Bluebird Society (FBS) is sponsoring the Third Winter Florida Bluebird Blitz on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 16 and 17.  
Faith Jones, FBS Statewide Bluebird Blitz Chair, said a blitz is a concentrated effort on two specific days to locate as many Eastern Bluebirds as possible in Florida.

So far this fall has been absolutely gorgeous. We had a couple of days when the weather was bad, but most have been very nice and very fishable.
The water temperature really cooled down with the cool nights we had last week and the water clarity went from dingy to gin-clear almost overnight.
I have fished the flats and some of the outer bars, which were loaded up with reds before the cool and have not been able to find anything. Everything has either been out real deep or around the oyster bars.