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Manatee Viewing Center & Waterfront Lunch Trip
Round trip transportation $20 pp. See Guest Experience to sign up. Limited seating to 36 passengers. Once the passenger bus is full, guests may drive and/or follow the bus to the site.
Trip to Apollo Beach to the Manatee Viewing Center (free admission), then lunch at Circles or Finns waterfront restaurants. Please see the links below for menus. Final stop at Apollo Beach Nature Preserve before returning to the resort.
Manatees love warm water. And by a stroke of POWERful luck, Tampa Electric can provide it to them! Our Big Bend Power Station in Apollo Beach circulates water from Tampa Bay for cooling, then sends the water flowing clean and warm back into the bay. In the winter months the manatees leave colder waters to return to this warm and welcoming refuge.
Because of this uniquely unusual migration, we’ve built the Manatee Viewing Center so everyone could have a chance to see manatees gather. Our discharge canal is a state and federally designated manatee sanctuary that provides critical protection from the cold for these unique, gentle animals.
https://www.tampaelectric.com/company/mvc/