Award-winning reporter, environmental writer, and photographer Lucy Beebe Tobias retired after 23 years with New York Times newspapers in Florida to pursue adventures in undiscovered Florida.
She is part of a team chosen by Audubon of Florida to do a campaign called 53 Parks in 53 Days to highlight all the parks DEP had proposed for closure, but now Gov. Scott is saying no parks will close, still, it is good to document Florida’s Special Places.
Lucy writes a column called “Telling Your Story” for WORDS, the Marion County Public Library System’s quarterly newsmagazine.
Her first book “50 Great Walks in Florida” was published by University Press of Florida in 2008 and selected to be part of their Wild Florida series. It takes you on short but significant jaunts to fascinating places. Want to know more? Invite Lucy for a fun talk and book signing to your group. And let’s take a walk!
Lucy served up videos, blogs and stories about real Florida as Authentic Florida Expert for two years at www.VisitFlorida.com along with unique travel, gardening and environment adventures at www.LucyTobias.com. You can sign up for her Saturday Morning magazine (free) that comes in your e mail once a month – things to do around Florida and tied in with her book. Go to www.LucyTobias.com
Her motto is: “There is so much more to Florida!” Translation: After you’ve done the theme parks, come see Lucy for authentic Florida. And a good place to start is her book “50 Great Walks in Florida”
This is a fun book to read. It is even more fun to walk. The scenery keeps changing with
historic walks, nature 
walks, botanical walks, an exotic moonlight walk and even a ghost walk.
Twenty-three of these walks are mentioned in the Great Florida Birding Trail Guides and, in Trip Essentials for each chapter, Lucy even tells you what page in the Guide! Osprey Island is one of her favorites.
Her three sons are grown and living in the Northwest which is a good thing as her home is currently occupied by two dogs and three cats, and it is a little crowded.
Lucy has also been in previous lives a commercial fisherman in Cortez, Florida, a certified nuclear submarine arc welder, an apprentice carpenter & an illustrator with the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville.
Lucy is still trying to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up. Meanwhile she’s digging up the back yard for a vegetable garden and also planting butterfly friendly plants. It is wonderful to have butterflies fluttering.
She is a member of the Florida Outdoor Writers Association , the Society of American Travel Writers. and the Florida Writers Association.
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