New Boardwalk Coming to Picnic Island

The Tampa Tribune is reporting that Picnic Island will receive a $430,000 facelift from the Parks and Recreation Department.

'We are going to be looking at ways to incorporate a boardwalk to provide access to a couple of different habitats,' city landscape architect Brad Suder said.

However, the boardwalk will not slice directly through the mangrove thicket to Picnic Island Bayou, a shallow tidal flat where wading birds hunt for food, Suder said.

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