If you want to make your friends enduring the northern winter even more envious, consider sending them photos of your trip to the World Wetlands Day Festival at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary. You can explore by swamp buggy in no more layers than a sweater; enjoy nature walks sans snow; do yoga on the boardwalk without shoveling it first; and learn nature photography at sunrise or sunset among trees that still have their leaves. The event, Jan. 31 through Feb. 2, opens with a full day of live music and hands-on (and mittens-free) discovery stations.
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