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• Children's Art Tent Registration

  • When
    Sat, September 20, 2025
  •  
    9:00 AM
  • Location
    Oakland Nature Preserve driveway
  • Registered
    4 registrants

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  Calling all young artists!

  Would you like to share your art with the ONP community? Please join us at Nature Fest and show your work in the Children's Art Tent. Art can be any medium such as water colors, crayon, pencil, multi media, anything that you enjoy working with! Here are the parameters:

  • artist must be 17 y/o or younger
  • art must be able to be shown on art tent cork wall or table top
  • art is to fit into this year's theme (however you imagine it)

  
  

  This year's theme:

  Florida's Scaly Friends

  
  

  Drop off your art at ONP the week of the event, more info will come before the event date.

  
  

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• Lake Apopka Boat Tour 9:00am

  • When
    Sat, September 20, 2025
  •  
    9:00 AM
  • Location
    Healthy West Orange Boardwalk at ONP
  • Spaces left
    7

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  Join your guide Jim Peterson of SJWMD and Rusty Anchor Boat Tours of Mount Dora for this interesting and beautiful look at iconic Lake Apopka. The tour will last approximately 45 minutes and space is limited. Children 3 and under are free but must be registered.

  You will be meeting your captain at the Lake Pavilion at the end of the Healthy West Orange Boardwalk. Please give yourself plenty of time to walk the 2/3 mile from our parking lot to the dock.

  
  

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• Lake Apopka Boat Tour 10:00am

  • When
    Sat, September 20, 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM
  • Location
    Healthy West Orange Boardwalk at ONP
  • Spaces left
    14

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  Join your guide Jim Peterson of SJWMD and Rusty Anchor Boat Tours of Mount Dora for this interesting and beautiful look at iconic Lake Apopka. The tour will last approximately 45 minutes and space is limited. Children 3 and under are free but must be registered.

  You will be meeting your captain at the Lake Pavilion at the end of the Healthy West Orange Boardwalk. Please give yourself plenty of time to walk the 2/3 mile from our parking lot to the dock.

  
  

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• Lake Apopka Boat Tour 11:00am

  • When
    Sat, September 20, 2025
  •  
    11:00 AM
  • Location
    Healthy West Orange Boardwalk at ONP
  • Spaces left
    8

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  Join your guide Jim Peterson of SJWMD and Rusty Anchor Boat Tours of Mount Dora for this interesting and beautiful look at iconic Lake Apopka. The tour will last approximately 45 minutes and space is limited. Children 3 and under are free but must be registered.

  You will be meeting your captain at the Lake Pavilion at the end of the Healthy West Orange Boardwalk. Please give yourself plenty of time to walk the 2/3 mile from our parking lot to the dock.

  
  

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• Lake Apopka Boat Tour 12:30pm

  • When
    Sat, September 20, 2025
  •  
    12:30 PM
  • Location
    Healthy West Orange Boardwalk at ONP
  • Spaces left
    16

  Register

  Join your guide Jim Peterson of SJWMD and Rusty Anchor Boat Tours of Mount Dora for this interesting and beautiful look at iconic Lake Apopka. The tour will last approximately 45 minutes and space is limited. Children 3 and under are free but must be registered.

  You will be meeting your captain at the Lake Pavilion at the end of the Healthy West Orange Boardwalk. Please give yourself plenty of time to walk the 2/3 mile from our parking lot to the dock.

  This tour ends after other event festivities conclude. Please use caution when returning to the parking lot as vendors will be loading.

  
  

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• Lake Apopka Boat Tour 1:30pm

  • When
    Sat, September 20, 2025
  •  
    1:30 PM
  • Location
    Healthy West Orange Boardwalk at ONP
  • Spaces left
    12

  Register

  Join your guide Jim Peterson of SJWMD and Rusty Anchor Boat Tours of Mount Dora for this interesting and beautiful look at iconic Lake Apopka. The tour will last approximately 45 minutes and space is limited. Children 3 and under are free but must be registered.

  You will be meeting your captain at the Lake Pavilion at the end of the Healthy West Orange Boardwalk. Please give yourself plenty of time to walk the 2/3 mile from our parking lot to the dock.

  This tour is after the conclusion of other event festivities.

  
  

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