Hundreds of European starlings, known as a murmuration, take flight at sunset at Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge west of Boynton Beach. Photo by Susan Wasserman BELOW RIGHT: Five young gallinules huddle near the shore of Lake
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FAU student Chase Donaghy enjoyed an afternoon of surfing at Red Reef Park. Tao Woolfe/The Coastal Star
By Tao Woolfe
Boca Raton’s Red Reef Park is a busy place in the late afternoon as beachgoers scoop up kids, towels and folding chairs for the trek
Tom D’Auria paints a roseate spoonbill on the beach side of the Middle Tunnel at Spanish River Park. With other artists set to work on the South Tunnel this month, the public art project will be complete. Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
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By Steve Plunkett
Four artists who decorated walls at Red Reef Park last fall have won return engagements to create more murals on the entrances to Spanish River Park’s tunnels under State Road A1A.
They will be joined by two artists, both from Boca
By Steve Plunkett
The Boca Raton City Council will tweak a citizen-initiated ordinance that restricts city-owned land on the Intracoastal Waterway to “public recreation, public boating access, public streets and city stormwater uses only” so utilitie
An adult least tern offers food to a young juvenile on the beach in Boca Raton near the south edge
of Spanish River Park in mid-June. Based on the size and color of feathers, a Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
biologist estimated the youngst
A least tern sits on eggs on the beach in Boca Raton.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission workers and Gumbo Limbo staff
make signs for a perimeter fence to deter beachgoers from walking on the nest.
The dappled color of the eggs is a go
By Steve Plunkett
Just like last year, a mommy leatherback turtle has kicked off nesting season in Boca Raton.
Gumbo Limbo Nature Center spotters found 2017’s first sea turtle nest March 25 in Spanish River Park. The location was well north of
Boca Raton Deputy Mayor Mike Mullaugh pushes Heather Taylor, Ms. Wheelchair Florida 2016,
along one of the city’s mobility mats at Spanish River Park.
Photo provided
By April W. Klimley
For Heather Taylor, a visit to the beach at Boca Raton’s
Boca resident Lisa Huffman holds her son Harrison while keeping an eye on her golden doodle
and a friend’s greyhound at Bark Park Dog Beach.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Arden Moore
My dogs, Chipper and Cleo, remind me to never stereotype can
‘Who wants to go for a boat ride?’ Guests outfitted in the mandatory life jackets
are ready to be helped aboard one of the 20 yachts offering rides to attendees
of last year’s Boating & Beach Bash for People With Disabilities.
Photo provided
By Apri
The Boca Raton Garden Club continues
its 22-year tradition of offering a holiday ornament.
Photo contributed
By Sallie James
Holiday decorations with a historic touch are what the Boca Raton Garden Club’s annual commemorative ornament fundraiser
Participants prepare for some fun on the water
during a previous Boating and Beach Bash at Spanish River Park.
Photo provided
By Janis Fontaine
If you have a physical or intellectual disability — or if you love and care for someone who does
A trio of dogs enjoys the surf at Spanish River Park.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Sallie James
It’s 7:30 a.m. on a Saturday, and Vince Jacobs is watching as his soft-coated wheaten terriers race down the beach, kicking up sand and dodging the
The loggerhead turtle was emaciated,
had been struck by a propeller
and had a 4-inch hook in her esophagus.
Crowds cheer as Phoenix the loggerhead turtle returns to the ocean on June 12.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
This transmitter placed by the te
About 600 runners laced up their shoes to take part in the Green Turtle Gallop at Spanish River Park
in Boca Raton. The 6.2-mile run raised about $10,000 for Gumbo Limbo’s Sea Turtle rehabilitation facility.
Runners, walkers and watchers were greet
By Steve Plunkett
The city’s long-awaited dog beach will open to pets and pet lovers the second weekend of December at the north end of Spanish River Park.
Hours will be 7 to 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. to sunset on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Th
