FORT MYERS BEACH - The Florida Department of Environmental Protection's Lovers Key State Park will host the annual Great Outdoor Adventure Day on Oct. 30, 2010. As part of the event this year, Lovers Key will partner with Lee County to celebrate the Calusa Blueway Paddling Festival. The event will feature canoe, kayak, and stand-up paddleboard clinics and demonstrations, guided paddle tours, bike tours, beach walks, live animals, living pirate and Calusa history, a marine life touch tank, birding programs, a gopher tortoise burrow cam, fishing clinic, kids’ games, solar observation through telescopes, and live music.

Admission to the event is included with the park entrance fee ($8 per vehicle for up to 8 people, $4 for single occupancy vehicle, and $2 for pedestrians).

For additional information, contact the park office at (239) 463-4588 or visit www.floridastateparks.org/loverskey or www.calusabluewaypaddlingfestival.com.

The Lovers Key event will take place:
Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Lovers Key State Park
8700 Estero Blvd
Fort Myers Beach, Florida