Photos and Information By Pat Foster-Turley
March 21, 2022
Editor’s Note: Yesterday, Pat Foster-Turley, nature columnist of “Pat’s Wildways,” was on a different beat. Pat happened on the scene of a stranded tour bus in downtown Fernandina Beach at the Hampton Inn. We thank Pat for the information and photos of the bus and its eventual rescue.
Seldomridge of Hilliard, Florida, arrived in Fernandina’s Historic Downtown with a 50-ton wrecker to rescue a stranded tour bus. According to bystanders, the bus was in the lurch for 3 hours. Photo courtesy of Pat Foster-Turley.
A view of the rescue looking south on 2nd Street in downtown Fernandina Beach. Photo courtesy of Pat Foster-Turley.
Pat Foster-Turley is an international biodiversity specialist with a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Florida and more than 30 years of international work assignments throughout Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). She has lived in Fernandina Beach with her husband Bucko for more than 20 years. Since 2005, Pat has written a local wildlife/nature/travel column, “Wildways," while still leading short term international biodiversity assessment teams.
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Pat is an awesome person!!
This is what happens when our local government gives permission for all these gigantic tour buses to tour our so called QUIET little community.
Public road. Private hotel property.
Government permission??