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Great For The Kids: Turtle Point Science Center Open House
February 5, 2012
There was an open house held Saturday at the Turtle Point Science Center in Flomaton. If you missed it, there is another chance to see the facility next month.
The next open house at Turtle Point is scheduled for March 31 from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. Admission is free.
For more photos from Saturday’s open house, click here.
The 3,000 square foot facility offers a touch tank for children and other hands-on exhibits. It boasts an extensive collection of wildlife specimens including many Alabama birds, nests, and eggs; a butterfly and living bee exhibit; live alligators, turtles, snakes, amphibians, and fish of the East Gulf Coastal Plain geophysical region. Also, plant lovers will find six teaching gardens and a wetland nature trail.
Bird watchers are encouraged to hike the nature trail boardwalk and enjoy the red-tailed hawk, great blue heron, great egret, pileated woodpecker, red-headed woodpecker, yellow-shafted flicker, yellow bellied sap sucker, eastern bluebird, wren, killdeer, green heron, barred owl, screech owl, and many other native birds and wildlife.
Turtle Point’s goal is to provide hands-on environmental education to students and adults in the South Alabama and Northwest Florida. Turtle Point is located at 20959 Highway 31 in Flomaton, near Hurricane Park and Flomaton High School. For more information, call (251) 296-3401.
Pictured top: The Turtle Point Science Center in Flomaton. Pictured inset: A golden eagle on display at Turtle Point. Pictured below: A view of the Big Escambia Creek as seen from the nature trail at Turtle Point. Photos by Marcella Wilson for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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5 Responses to “Great For The Kids: Turtle Point Science Center Open House”
Open on Saturdays, a good idea. A few volunteers and enough to cover the electric bill is all that ought to be needed.
I WISHED THIS FACILITY WAS OPEN ON SATURDAYS. IT WOULD GIVE PEOPLE A REASON TO STOP AT FLOMATON INSTEAD OF JUST PASSING THROUGH.
NOW THAT WE ARE HAVING ANTIQUE AUCTIONS AGAIN SOME OF THOSE ATTENDING MAY ENJOY A PLEASANT BREAK AT TURTLE POINT.
A little environmental activism by H.S. and Jr. College students would be savored, loved, enjoyed, celebrated, fawned over, joined, exalted and welcomed.
I didn’t know it was there either until the school went on a field trip there. What a fabulous place right here close to home! It is a shame they can;t afford to advertise.. Thanks, for getting the word out, William!
I never knew this was here. Now I will have to go visit it and learn and see more Gulf Coast birds/animals. There is such a variety here, some I see where I live or when I’m out and about. I hope more epople will visit there.