It's that time again. Every year in October, in the small town of Inverness, Florida, they hold an annual event known as "The Great American Cooter Festival." It's a festival that simply celebrates the Cooter. People come from miles around to attend.
Everything there is geared toward the Cooter. You have Cooter hats, Cooter t-shirts, Cooter art work, etc. They have food and really big glasses of lemonade. Nothing like a big glass of cold lemonade when you're surrounded by Cooters, that's for sure! Across the street there is a red caboose sitting in a little space that has benches and picnic tables around it. On the side of the caboose it says "Withlacoochie". So you have Cooters Withlacoochie...
I got to go to the Cooter Festival in 2010. I had a really good time and I got a great T-shirt that says “I got my Cooter in Inverness, Florida.” How many people have one of those?
I visited Cooter Park on a regular basis and even took Arden there when she came to see me in Florida. Imagine - a park named after Cooters! You can observe and take pictures of Cooters in Cooter Park and it is perfectly legal. And there are many to choose from. Surprisingly - Arden liked it a lot and took a lot of pictures.
Yeah... the Cooter Festival is a good time. But you can only take it for so long in one day before you get tired of cooters and have to find something else to do. I wear my t-shirt proudly though and look forward to going back sometime. Too bad they don't have Cooter Festivals in Texas!
Oh, by the way – a Cooter is a fresh water turtle that is native to Eastern North America and the festival is in celebration of that turtle. I’m not sure what you were thinking….
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