Our last stop on the way to Jekyll Island was awesome.
Edge of Manatee Spring.
The spring is beautiful. They have added steps and guardrails to help swimmers enter the mucky edge. The water out in the middle is crystal clear. Good swimming if you are not afraid of alligators and snakes.
This guy and several of his siblings were sunning in the muck just downstream of the spring where a bunch of people were swimming… not me
Also just downstream from the Spring… Someone told us this was a cottonmouth?
Becky searching for a Manatee.
Everyone told us April 21 would be too late to see a Manatee but we did!
The Suwanee River does not have any flood control dams on it so it floods fairly often. The post shows levels of flooding that inundate the area. The plaque is a 1774 description of the spring.
A White Ibis flew by. What an incredible beak!
Yellow Crowned Night Heron.
A sequence of Night Heron landing on sunny branch.
A different Yellow Crowned Night Heron – with a more yellow crest/crown and doing the one-legged heron thing.
Night Heron hunting crabs.
Night Heron’s love crabs and crawdads. They got one but it happened so fast I had no idea what they got until getting a look at photos.
Our campsite had an Orange Tree!
And a Brown Anole threatening us with his throat thingy (Dewlap).
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