Lolling. Unadulterated lolling. Scores of manatees spent hours doing just that, along with an occasional roll, splash or flip of the tail, in the 30-acre outdoor sauna that Tampa Electric Co.'s Big Bend Station provided during last week's winter chill. ...more

January 9, 2008

Lolling. Unadulterated lolling. Scores of manatees spent hours doing just that, along with an occasional roll, splash or flip of the tail, in the 30-acre outdoor sauna that Tampa Electric Co.'s Big Bend Station provided during last week's winter chill. ...more

January 9, 2008

Last week's cool spell turned the discharge canal at Tampa Electric Co.'s Big Bend Station into a 30-acre outdoor sauna for more than 100 manatees. "It's a manatee spa," TECO environmental specialist Wendy Valle Anastasiou told visitors Thursday at the Manatee Viewing Center. ...more

January 9, 2008