The morning started out at freezing and reached a high near 45F brrr. Hoping to find manatees we headed to Manatee Springs about 20 mile away. Manatee Springs is a class 1 magnitude spring meaning it pumps more than 65,000 gallons per day on its 1/4 mile flow to the Swannee River. While cold, the walk was worthwhile. We saw four submerged manatees, several diving cormorants, seven turtles, several mullets, a half dozen green carp, one river otter, a blue heron, 30-50 buzzards, several crows, a squirrel, two deer, a kingfisher, hundreds of cypress knees, two divers, and probably two dozen people. Not too bad for for a quarter mile walk on an unusually cold, icy Northern Florida mid-day.
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