Tampa Bay Rays.) You can also get a bird's-eye view of the area by climbing up the stairs to the 50-foot viewing tower, located halfway down the Manatee Viewing Center's habitat loop trail.

A FWC map from Tuesday afternoon showed varying degrees of red tide in the water off Manatee and Sarasota counties.

Dead fish covered many beaches in Sarasota and Manatee County beaches over the long Valentine's Day weekend ... "It wouldn't ...

As red tide counts fall in Southwest Florida, Florida Fish and Wildlife suspects the toxic algae killed a manatee and a dolphin ... FWC's red tide map currently shows only background levels ...