Welcome to Sarasota Downtown - Hyatt in top left corner

IAMSLIC: Changes on the Horizon a combined IAMSLIC - SAIL conference

Hyatt

New Passbetween Sarasota Bay and the Gulf of Mexico

Downtown in the background

Mote

Hyatt Hotel

Take a walk along the Bayfront Park

More Bayfront….

Hyatt

Sidewalk cafes

Downtown

Cocktails in Paradise

Bookstore on St. Armands Circle

Downtown Books and more…..

Saturday morning

Farmer’s Market

Shopping on

St. Armand’s Circle

Van Wezel Performing Arts Center

Across the street from the hotel.

More Theaters

Opera Housedowntown Sarasota

Historic Asolo Theater America’s only 18th century European Theater. (on the grounds of the Ringling Museum)

John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art

Located on a 66-acre estate on Sarasota Bay, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art was established in 1927 as the legacy of John Ringling (1866-1936) and his wife, Mable (1875 to 1929). Recognized as the official State Art Museum

Ringling cont.

The Museum of Art offers 21 galleries of European paintings as well as Cypriot antiquities, Asian Art, American paintings, and contemporary art.

Cà d'Zan ("House of John")

Ringling’s Venetian waterfront mansion built in 1924 and restored in 2002

The estate also features Mable Ringling’s Rose Garden, completed in 1913.

Circus MuseumEstablished in 1948, the

Ringling Museum of the American Circus was the first museum of its kind to document the rich history of the circus.

NEW: The Circus Museum’s 30,600 sq. ft.- Tibbals Learning Center opened in 2006 to include models, posters and a history of the circus from ancient times.

Marie Selby Botanical Garden

Meander along the garden paths Visit the Orchid House

Myakka River State Park

Canopy Walk

Kayaking

The mangrove tunnels

One of Florida’s many Springs: Rainbow Springs

Mote Marine Lab & Aquarium

Manatees

Eco Boat Tour

Fort DeSoto State Park,

Named after a turn-of-the-century fort complete with 12" mortars"

St. Petersburg and Tampa 1 hour north of Sarasota

Sunshine Skyway Bridge - connects Sarasota to St. Pete

Dali Museum, St. Pete

Busch Gardens, Tampa

Orlando area –

2 hrs from Sarasota

Local Hosts

Vera Neumann-Wood, Selby Public Library

Jan Boyett, FL FWC Sue Stover, Mote

See you in Florida October 7-11,

2007

Conference convener – Barb Butler, Oregon Institute of Marine Biology

IAMSLIC: Changes on the Horizon