Indian River Blog

The Grant Seafood Festival is the largest and longest running seafood festival in the Southeast. The Seafood Festival draws a large crowd every year with as many as 50,000 people for the event.

This year’s festival will be held February 23rd & 24th, 2008 from 11 AM - 5 PM daily and features free admission, free parking, over 100 craft exhibitors, continuous live entertainment, along with a menu of delicious seafood.

Some of the items offered this year include Fried Shrimp, Raw & Steamed Oysters, Linguini W/ Clam Sauce, Steamed Clams, Shrimp & Tuna Kabobs, both Manhattan & New England Clam Chowder and Lobster Bisque.

Visit Grant Seafood Festival at grantseafoodfestival.com. The Grant Seafood Festival is located at 4580 1st Street, Grant, Florida north of Sebastian.

On September 29 you’ll get chance to taste BBQ from Florida’s best teams as they compete for cash at the Grant BBQ Fest. Categories include Chicken, Pork, Pork Ribs and Beef Brisket. The Grand Champion Prize is $1500 and $1000 for the Reserve Champion. Cash payouts run through 5th place for each category with trophies going to winner of each. Proceeds will benefit Toys 4 Kids.

Parking and admission are free, entertainment features The Usual Suspects and Elgin Hooper. There is also a Marketplace with arts, crafts and more.

Visit Grant BBQ Fest at www.grantbbqfest.com.

Kennedy Space Center, FL - Netflix LIVE! On Location will present a live concert with The Bruce Willis Blues Band at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on Thursday, August 2 in the Rocket Garden. The 7:00 p.m. concert will be followed by a free outdoor screening of the 1998 Academy Award-nominated classic “Armageddon.”

Headlining this unique event is motion picture superstar Bruce Willis and his band, The Bruce Willis Blues Band, which will play a live, public concert prior to an outdoor screening of “Armageddon.”  The star and his band are expected to perform a 60-minute set of original blues music.  Returning to the space center for the first time since the filming of “Armageddon” a decade ago, Willis is expected to be welcomed by about 7,000 fans in the center’s spectacular outdoor Rocket Garden.

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Florida Wildlife

Birding in Florida

Florida Ecotourism is growing and the Florida Wildlife image gallery features many of the common animals you’d most likely encounter. Florida Geotourism is growing Florida has the greatest places to view nature with many state and local parks and birding trails.

The Florida Travel News also featured Birding in Florida, an image gallery that has many of Florida’s most common birds. Many of the bird pictures were taken at the Viera Wetlands near Melbourne FL.

UPDATED 7/6/7 - The Dawn spacecraft launch has been postponed until no earlier than Monday, July 9. The launch window for Dawn on Monday will be 3:56 p.m. to 4:26 p.m.NASA’s Dawn mission is getting ready to launch on an unprecedented tour of two residents of the asteroid belt. This mission will be the first to orbit two different bodies in our solar system.

Following launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), FL, on a Delta 2, the Dawn spacecraft will use ion propulsion periodically for four years to take it to its first destination, the asteroid Vesta, in 2011. After seven months in orbit there, Dawn will depart for a nearly three-year cruise to the dwarf planet Ceres, where it will arrive in 2015. Dawn will spend five months in orbit at Ceres. The spacecraft will be the first ever to orbit one extraterrestrial body, depart, and then orbit a second body.