CSE 49th Annual Meeting Schedule
Optional Tours
City Tour of Tampa Bay
With the witty, irreverent commentary of "Prudence Fipwhistle" keeping you company every minute of the driving tour, you will experience the Gilded Age of Tampa come alive!
Miss Prudence Fipwhistle (born 1855; died 1899 of a broken heart) is the fictional social director of the Tampa Bay Hotel. Dressed in elaborate and authentic 1890s attire, this petite Victorian woman has watched Tampa grow from a genuine cow town of 1,500 souls to a bustling Southern city. She has survived numerous adventures and natural disasters, keeping her sense of humor through it all. She will regale you with tall tales and the even taller truth about Tampa and its citizens in the gaslight era.
Prudence, your guide, is a humanities scholar and performing artist who will guide you to:
- Ybor City, "Tampa's Latin Quarter," the town cigars built, and the haunted site of the Florida Brewing Company, and the Ybor City Museum
- Palmetto Beach, a Gay Nineties recreation spot
- Port Tampa, the site of Henry B Plant's Port Tampa Inn, the staging depot for Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders
- The Tampa Bay Hotel (now University of Tampa) and the HB Plant Museum
- Bayshore Boulevard, the "Boulevard of Dreams"; Ballast Point Pier and Pavilion; historic homes; a Civil War skirmish site, and the "vanished" Spanish town of Creek
- Old Hyde Park, with its beautiful historic homes and churches
Saturday, 20 May 2006
Leave Hotel: 1:00pm
(Meet in hotel lobby to board the bus)
Return: 5:00pm
Cost: $55.00 per person
(20-person minimum) |
Tuesday, 23, May 2006
Leave Hotel: 1:30pm
(Meet in hotel lobby to board the bus)
Return: 5:30pm
Cost: $55.00 per person
(20-person minimum) |
Florida Museum and Ecological Boat Tour
The Florida Aquarium is both dramatic and unique, demonstrating the fragile and astonishing world of Florida's diverse water habitats. Beginning with the Florida Springs exhibit, you will trace the journey of a drop of water from the limestone caves of Florida's aquifers through rivers and wetlands to the beaches and open ocean, while viewing over 4,300 animals and plants that represent 550 species native to Florida.
You will be free to explore 4 themed exhibits:
- Florida Wetlands, with an aquarium, aviary and botanical conservatory housing fish, alligators, river otters, wading birds, and plants
- Florida Bays and Beaches, beginning with the unique Florida Bridges exhibit and concluding with the waves, fish, birds, and constantly changing shoreline of a Florida beach
- Florida Coral Reefs, simulating a 60-foot dive off the Florida Keys with an incredible 180-degree step-in window and a breathtaking 2-story panoramic window that provide spectacular views of this 500,000-gallon exhibit and its hundreds of colorful inhabitants
- Florida Offshore focuses on jellyfish, microscopic plankton, and the fascinating forms of life that live on, in, and around seaweed
Then board your boat for an eye-opening ecological cruise that will highlight the natural wonders of Tampa Bay, including bottlenose dolphins, endangered manatees, numerous species of birds, and abundant fish—all thriving in a working, deepwater port.
Saturday, 20 May 2006
Leave Hotel: 12:30pm
(Meet in hotel lobby to board the bus)
Return: 4:30pm
Cost: $65.00 per person
(20-person minimum) |
Tuesday, 23, May 2006
Leave Hotel: 1:30pm
(Meet in hotel lobby to board the bus)
Return: 5:30pm
Cost: $65.00 per person
(20-person minimum) |
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