Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Manatees at Homosassa Springs









A great place to see manatees up close is Homosassa Springs Wildlife Park. The water is crystal clear. There are several manatees that live at the park. There's an observation deck that you can walk around over the water and see the manatees swimming by. The water there stays warm all year round so I'll have to go back in the winter. There's a boardwalk over the river that runs outside the park where the wild manatees congregate in the winter. I've heard you can see hundreds of them huddled together. Mullet fish were jumping non-stop. We only get an occasional jump in the channel behind our house. Here they were jumping constantly. I finally got a picture of one in mid-air.

2 comments:

  1. Beautiful animals Dina.
    great photographs.
    Costas

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  2. Dina-I can't believe that I've been missing this blog. Great stuff. My grandpa and I go mullet fishing every fall for mullet.

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