Get Up and Go Kayaking - Robinson Preserve

Get Up and Go Kayaking - Robinson Preserve Book your window seat to adventure on this 100% clear kayak ecotour through Robinson Preserve!

05/30/2026

You don’t expect that much pink on a paddle 🩷 popping through the mangroves!

Spotting a roseate spoonbill at Robinson Preserve is always amazing! They’re hard to miss with that color, but it’s how they feed that’s even cooler than these brilliant pink feathers, sweeping their spoon-shaped bills side to side through shallow water to feel for food.

📍Get Up and Go Kayaking Robinson Preserve Clear Kayak Eco Tour

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05/26/2026

Nature leaves a lot of clues if you know how to read them 🦀👣

We found a horseshoe crab or rather the hard exoskeleton and some parts like the legs. In the soft sand nearby were small hand-shaped prints and little claw marks. Raccoon tracks. Mystery solved.

Raccoons are opportunistic feeders and will forage along shorelines at low tide, flipping over horseshoe crabs and feeding on the soft tissue inside. What’s left behind is the empty shell, which will eventually break down and return nutrients to the ecosystem. Even in death, nothing goes to waste so we left it exactly how we found it!

On a Get Up and Go Kayaking Robinson Preserve tour, we don’t just look at wildlife, we read the story the shoreline is telling and teach you how to, too! 🌊🚣‍♀️

05/26/2026

Wild Florida is calling ⬇️

This incredible place is 📍Robinson Preserve located just over the Sunshine Skyway bridge from Tampa🌴

A wild paradise, this coastal gem offers a peaceful sanctuary for so much wildlife + humans too!

Best way to catch these views? 👇🏼

With miles of dedicated paddling trails is there any other way to explore other than
in a 100% clear kayak?

📍Robinson Preserve Clear Kayak Eco Tours

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05/22/2026

Today on our Get Up and Go Kayaking Robinson Preserve tour, we spotted something pretty special beneath our clear kayaks a beautiful lightning whelk shell resting quietly on the estuary floor🐚✨

It was empty, glossy, and absolutely tempting… but we put it back. 👇

Even when a shell is abandoned, it’s often still very important. Shells like these are prime real estate for creatures like hermit crabs, who rely on empty shells for protection as they grow. A shell that seems like a keepsake to us could be someone’s future home.

At Robinson Preserve, every piece of the ecosystem has a role even the shells. By looking, learning, and leaving things as we find them, we help ensure the next little crab searching for shelter gets exactly what it needs.

This is what eco-touring is all about:
🌱 observe, don’t collect
🌱 respect the habitat
🌱 protect the tiny moments that keep this place thriving

Sometimes the best way to appreciate nature… is simply letting it be 💚

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05/17/2026

Vacant and ready for its next tenant 🐚

We spotted an empty channel whelk shell under our clear kayak at Robinson Preserve with no snail inside. When whelks die or move on, their shells don’t go to waste. Hermit crabs and other small marine life quickly claim them as new homes.

We left it right where it was for the next tenant to move in because every shell can be reused in nature. 🌊🚣‍♀️

05/13/2026

You paddle out, hop off the kayak, and suddenly you’re just wandering around the sandbar like “wait what is that?”

Every few steps there’s something new from little crabs, cool shells, marine snails 🐌, hermit crabs, tracks from raccoons, otters and all the stuff the tide decided to leave behind.

Paddle, explore, repeat, ALL DAY EVERY DAY🚣‍♀️✨

Get up and go explore wild Florida ➡️

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05/11/2026

Fiddler crabs were everywhere at Robinson Preserve, popping in and out of their burrows like tiny construction crews. These little crabs spend their days digging and sifting sand for organic bits to eat which aerates the sediment and in turn helps keep the ecosystem healthy.

The males are the easy ones to spot because of their oversized claw, which they wave around to attract females and show off to rivals!

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05/10/2026

We spotted a very large lightning whelk beneath the kayak at Robinson Preserve, slowly moving across the sand below us. These are one of the largest marine snails in Florida and they’re active predators, using a strong foot to travel along the seafloor in search of clams and other shellfish.

One easy way to identify a lightning whelk is by the direction of its shell opening. If you hold the shell with the tip pointing up, the opening will be on the left side, making it the only marine snail on the Gulf Coast with a left-handed (sinistral) shell.

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05/08/2026

Talk about guide vision, it’s a super power to spot a creature this tiny and this well camouflaged on the sandbar 🦀✨

Have you ever seen anything this cute?

Guide/🎥: spotted this tiny baby horseshoe crab at Robinson Preserve that was barely the same size as her pinky fingernail. Even at that size, it already had the same helmet-shaped shell and long tail (called a telson) that these animals use to flip themselves over if they get stuck.

Horseshoe crabs have been around for over 450 million years, which means their ancestors were crawling around long before dinosaurs. Seeing one this small is a sweet reminder that the next generation of these incredible animals is already making its way through our coastal waters 💙

Moments like this are easy to miss unless you slow down and look closely on a 📍Get Up and Go Kayaking Robinson Preserve clear kayak ecotour. 🌊🚣‍♀️

05/04/2026

Tis the season! More lightening whelk eggs!

Those long, ribbon-like strands are made up of dozens of capsules, each holding developing whelks. Finding a lot of them is a good sign, it means these marine snails have a stable place to reproduce and the conditions are right for the next generation!

📍Get Up and Go Kayaking Robinson Preserve Clear Kayak Eco Tours

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