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Meet the Sleuth Who Solved Last Week's "Where Am I?" Riddle

Terry Spencer guessed that our photo was taken at James E. Grey Preserve in New Port Richey

In our "Where Am I?" riddle feature, New Port Richey Patch asks readers to identify a mystery location featured on the site. The person who answers the question correctly is featured on the site the following Sunday. See if you can crack today's riddle here.

The first person to correctly answer last week's "Where Am I?" riddle was Terry Spencer. She correctly guessed the mystery location was the boardwalk at .

Here she us to tell us a little more about herself.

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I currently am a  veterinarian for Bayonet Point Animal Clinic in Port Richey. Previously, I was the Pasco County veterinarian and the shelter veterinarian for the Humane Society of Tampa Bay.  I also volunteer for the on Congress St in New Port Richey. 

I am a rare soul because I was born here 57 years ago as a third-generation New Port Richey resident.  My grandparents were some of the early settlers here during the 1920s and operated a business on Main Street in downtown NPR.  The business moved to U.S. 19 when it was still a two-lane road.  My parents attended Gulf High School, as did myself and my siblings. My children attend now.

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Currently, I live in downtown NPR with my two sons, three dogs and two cats. I figured out the riddle because I frequent the Grey Preserve--both on foot, on bike, and by kayak on the Pithlachascotee River.  The Preserve is one of the jewels of our City--along with the river itself, the New Port Richey Recreation and Aquatic Center, Sims Park, Green Key and Frances Ave Park.


I moved West in the mid-80's to change careers.  Prior to leaving, I was an environmental educator/science teacher for Pasco County Schools. Even then, growth was rapid-paced, and we were building at least one new school every year. When I returned to Pasco in 2004 , I was shocked at the way growth had not been managed.  Few current residents know or appreciate the beauty and nature we still have available to us in West Pasco.  We live in a tropical-marine paradise that those with only coastal beaches available to them cannot imagine.  Seagrass beds, estuaries, mangroves, springs, hammocks, barrier islands, mudflats, brackish rivers, cypress swamps, sandpine-scrubs, these are but a few of the habitats around us we can celebrate and protect while we have a chance. 

I hope NPR Patch will promote the natural beauty we have around us, and help revive this area by promoting eco-tourism.  It's the best of what we have here--and if we learn to love what we've got then others will come to enjoy it, too. 


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