After a long career in engineering and construction management, Deb Wilson has retired to enjoy the beauty of nature and traveling to places unknown.

Long Key State Park is best known as a kayaking paradise in the Florida Keys. The park’s best-kept secret is a rare cactus barren that provides refuge to the jumping cactus.

For 2019, most of the sea turtle nests have hatched and the adult turtles are migrating back to their feeding grounds. Here in Florida, park rangers, biologists and volunteers are still telling stories and planning for 2020.