Children’s Garden at Bok Tower

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The children’s garden at Bok Tower is a fanciful place.

In one of its play sites a giant stone replica of a Florida indigo snake coils around a children’s sand box. In another, huge stone acorns lie scattered on the ground under real live oaks that shade several play stations.

Instead of monkey bars, a giant spider’s web stretches under the trees for children to invent their own arachnid games. And a jumping water fountain meanders through a rock garden to cool down overheated kids.

All around, hammocks swing in the breeze for parents who need a rest while their children let off steam. It is one of the best children’s gardens I have seen.

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Published by Robert Craig Waters

Robert Craig Waters is a Florida writer. After leaving journalism in the early 1980s, he worked as an attorney, communications director, and public spokesman for the Florida Supreme Court in Tallahassee for 35 years. He grew up on a family farm in Beulah, Florida, not far from the Alabama border, before attending Brown University in the 1970s. His mother's family traces its roots to Weaverville, North Carolina. His father's family is from the small village of Burnt Corn, Alabama, where Mr. Waters spent part of his childhood.

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