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We love our famous, sugary sand beaches, but we also love experiencing the great outdoors in all its wild glory. With the Florida heat and humidity still bearable and school almost out, here’s our annual list of 10 favorite public parks or nature preserves in Sarasota and Manatee counties.
These are places to relax and picnic or perhaps hike and kayak. Located both near and far from our biggest cities, these are oases where beautiful scrub jay and regal osprey dot the blue skies, with waters populated by jumping mullet, mellow manatees and, yes, the occasional alligator!
Thanks to the pandemic, we spent a lot more time exploring during the past year. So, you should find more detailed entries as well as a couple of new ones. Covering places in Sarasota, Venice, Osprey, the UTC area, Bradenton and Palmetto, these parks and nature preserves are presented in alphabetical order.
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Nalin Isme, 13, has been exhibiting his work for three years. He’s also published a children’s book, “Alphatales.” (Tiffany Razzano/Patch) Beautiful Flaws by Nalin Isme (Nancy Isme)
ESTERO, FL While most kids dabble in the arts for fun, 13-year-old Nalin Isme takes his talent more seriously, creating a brand and business for his work, which he sells online and at fine art festivals throughout Southwest Florida.
The Estero seventh grader, who hopes to one day become an architect, picked up his first crayon at 5 years old. At first, I did scribble art, but my mom saw that I was really good at that and she gave me her old art paints, watercolors and pastels, he said. And I just started practicing with them.
Westcoast Troupe follows the ‘Pipeline’
The Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe combines live theater and video for the Sarasota premiere of Dominique Morisseau’s timely drama “Pipeline.” The play, which WBTT originally planned to present live in the fall, is being filmed inside the theater and will then be shown in outdoor screenings in the theater’s parking lot Friday through April 30. Home streaming will be available May 1-23. The roughly 90-minute play is about an inner-city public high school teacher whose son is threatened with expulsion from an elite private boarding school after he attacks a teacher. It is directed by L. Peter Callender, an actor and artistic director of the African-American Shakespeare Company of San Francisco. Tickets are $20. For more information: 941-366-1505; westcoastblacktheatre.org