Mayflower 400 and Mersea oysters are 2021 s East Coast travel highlights HARWICH S Mayflower 400 and Mersea Island s oysters have been named as 2021 s highlights by a new campaign to boost tourism on the East coast following Covid-19. The campaign is being run by England’s Coast, an new tourism initiative which includes Visit England, P&O and tourism groups from around the country. It has highlighted a number of tourism opportunities this year, including exploring Harwich during the Mayflower 400 celebrations, which were postponed from last year due to the pandemic. The campaign said: 2021 marks the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims setting sail from Plymouth to cross the Atlantic to reach the New World - America.
Mayflower 400 and Mersea oysters are 2021 s East Coast travel highlights HARWICH S Mayflower 400 and Mersea Island s oysters have been named as 2021 s highlights by a new campaign to boost tourism on the East coast following Covid-19. The campaign is being run by England’s Coast, an new tourism initiative which includes Visit England, P&O and tourism groups from around the country. It has highlighted a number of tourism opportunities this year, including exploring Harwich during the Mayflower 400 celebrations, which were postponed from last year due to the pandemic. The campaign said: 2021 marks the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims setting sail from Plymouth to cross the Atlantic to reach the New World - America.
Everglades National Park
The Everglades ecosystem once stretched across a mosaic of wetlands and subtropical wilderness from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay. Unfortunately, by the mid-1900s nearly half of the slow-moving “river of grass” had been drained to make way for farms and urban development. The park was established in 1947, after decades of activism, to preserve a treasured 1.5 million acres of the ecosystem.
The Everglades is a complex mix of salt and freshwater wetlands, hardwood hammocks, and pine rocklands that support a wide variety of flora and fauna. The ecosystem functions as a giant water purifier, filtering and cleaning water that drains from farms and impervious surfaces before reaching Florida Bay and the Ten Thousand Islands. The Everglades also contributes to South Florida’s climate resilience, naturally absorbing the impacts of hurricanes and minimizing coastal erosion and flooding.