Blue Springs State Park Florida

Hey, inside this motor home, we would never know it, but we are at a new park.  We are at another famous Florida Spring.  This is Blue Springs State Park.  ‘Blue Springs’ is the winter home of hundreds of the Florida Manetee. 

 Info note: The St John’s is the longest river in Florida, 310 miles long. It flows very slow about .3mph, considered a lazy river.

Above is looking up the St. John's.The barrier is the mouth of the Blue Spring river.

A walk here is like a rain forest, lush and green. Basically on the banks of the St. Johns and the Springs themselves furnish all the water necessary. Fish are in abundance. We saw only one young manatee today. It was a young fellow, probably not over 200lbs. We watched it interact with some swimmers.  The fissure you see below the manatee is the mouth of the springs.

 The spring fissures produce 100 million gallons of clear clean water a day. Another instant river, but not very long, before it becomes part of the St. Johns.
  We watched as the cub eased up to the swimmers. This guy is doing a no no, you are not supposed to touch the gentle giant, but how could you not when it comes right up to you. It has to be lonely with no other manatees to interact with..

 This is looking down the short river that the 100 million gallons make.

 This is a beautiful State park. They are also very busy and had to close the park at noon Sunday because of over crowding.

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