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Article: Hope floats on Shingle Creek: Purchases of 4 parcels renew ecotourism dreams.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- September 18, 2007
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Byline: Kumari Kelly
Sep. 18--KISSIMMEE
-Osceola County teacher Karen Brown pushed her yellow kayak through a thicket in the middle of Shingle Creek, less than a mile from busy U.S. Highway 192.
"This doesn't look anything like it did the last time I was here," she said of the high water. "The water really came up."
Brown fought her way to a small clearing before realizing there was more of the same ahead. The act seemed out of place so close to the shops and traffic of the tourist corridor.
The St. Cloud woman had ambled upon one of the county's most prized new possessions: the nearly $4 million, 160-acre "Babb property," a ...