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The Florida Keys are perhaps better known for their diving but there are spots all around the Florida coast, in particular Miami. In order to protect the area’s natural reefs from the stress of excessive human interaction while encouraging recreational fishing and sport diving in coastal waters, ‘artificial’ reefs are created out of a wide array of objects ranging from steel hulled ships, to army tanks, to commercial aircraft, to specially designed reef modules.

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Being from England my knowledge of Baseball is limited to movies that have featured it heavily. That would include ‘A League of Their Own’, ‘Fever Pitch’, ‘Field Of Dreams’ , ‘Major League’, ‘Bull Durham’ , ‘The Babe’ and the like.

Nevertheless this week saw the start of what is nicknamed ‘the Grapefruit League’ in Florida, or to give it its official name, ‘Spring Training’. In Major League Baseball spring training is a series of practices and exhibition games preceding the start of the regular season.

So, if you’re in Florida you have the chance to see teams like the New York Yankees (in Tampa), Boston Red Sox and Minnesota Twins (in Fort Myers) and current World Series holders St. Louis Cardinals (in Jupiter) not forgetting Florida’s own Tampa Bay Devil Rays (in St. Pete) and the Florida Marlins (in Jupiter).

If you’re looking for game schedules and the best up to date ‘Grapefruit League’ news check local Florida papers and the teams own Spring Training pages. Read the rest of this entry »