Here is a great daytripping idea! The Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary in Indian Shores, FL. It's educational for kids and adults and a fun, free way to spend a couple of hours. Admission is free to everyone.
Located in Indian Shores, between St. Petersburg and Clearwater on the Gulf Coast, the Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary is the largest wild bird hospital and sanctuary in the United States.
Residents and sanctuary volunteers bring injured wild birds to the center to be nursed back to health and be released back into the wild. Those birds that come in too injured to be rehabilitated get to stay in a permanent pen at the sanctuary.
Visitors aren't allowed to go inside the bird hospital. But they can stroll around the permanent pens and rehabilitating staging areas filled with brown and white pelicans, owls, hawks, terns and gulls. Some wild birds make their homes here as well and walk around the sanctuary to chirp to the other birds and mingle with the visitors. Be sure to look up because many of these birds make nests in the trees and roost in the branches. There also is an air-conditioned education building where visitors can watch a video about the sanctuary.
There are containers asking for donations to help pay for feeding and caring for the birds. But visitors don't feel obligated or guilty about not giving a donation.
Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary
18328 Gulf Boulelvard
Indian Shores, FL
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