Wildside
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It takes skill, patience and a good aim. Trap shooting is a popular sport here in Florida. Every day hundreds of people line up at the Silver Dollar Shooting Club in Odessa to try their hand at trap and skeet shooting. Wildside guy Randy Rauch shows us how.

The people who keep tabs on tagged manatees need your help in tracking them.

Marine mammal experts say preliminary results of a necropsy show a stranded pygmy sperm whale died of heart failure.

Busch Gardens will celebrate the holiday season with a brand new ice skating show. The theme park has turned a theatre into a ice skating wonderland.

The half million dollar facility can best be described as a series of empty swimming pools. Skaters and city leaders give the facility the thumbs up. Wildside Guy Randy Rauch takes you for a ride.

John Saxer says large, unusual rocks scattered around Florida's west coast are actually ancient boat anchors. Saxer believes the Tampa Bay coastline was the seaport of Atlantis. See the rocks and judge for yourself...

The attraction is known as "Ice". Each year the Gaylord Plams resorts creates a winter wonderland right here in the sunshine state. And its open to the public. Put on a jacket and see for yourself!

Every year the Big Cat Rescue in Tampa gives their animals a special Thanksgiving meal. Many of the cats are given a raw turkey to gobble down.
And it's interesting to watch them get fed.

The Richard Petty Driving Experience in Florida will have you behind the wheel of a NASCAR. They will have you driving the car yourself at speeds over 100 mph. You will actually feel what the pros feel.

There is a place north of Tampa Bay that is a rain forest full of butterflies. Anyone can come and visit. It is also home to some six million specimens.