More Florida Fun Facts

Here are some more Florida Fun Facts (source: www.great-florida-vacations.com/florida-fun-facts.html)

Did you know?

1. Canaveral (as in Cape Canaveral) means “place of reeds or cane.” If you’ve ever been in the Cape back country, you can appreciate the name.
2. Hialeah means “pretty prairie.”
3. Loxahatchee means “river of turtles.”
4. Miami means (variously) “all beavers,” “all friends,” “cry of the crane” and “people who live on the peninsula” and “very large.” The name sure does get around! In this case, it’s thought to derive from Mayaimi, referring to the very large nearby Lake Okeechobee.
5. Ocala means “heavily clouded.”