Blue Spring State Park

 

Walking to the swim entrance, 8:30, Sunday morning. The above pic is sitting on the steps.  Must still be manatees in the Run, as swimming is banned downstream of the sign

 

 Swimming up the Run. It was hard.  Either I am getting weaker, or the Run had a stronger flow. Probably the latter.

 Reached forward, grabbing logs, and pulled myself forward for a boost.

No manatees seen.

 Just gar.

 

 Out of the water, to the kayak

 

 On the St. Johns River at 9:30.

 Into Blue Spring Run

Main swim area was closed. Work being done on the steps going up from the dock.  Not the stairs in the photo.

 Not to mention, a few manatees in the Run

 Calf close to mother.

 

 

 Nursing

 

Tarpon

 The stairs where I entered the water

 

 

Back on the St. Johns.

Eagle finding tip.  A confluence can be a good place.  More fish.

 Criminals

 

 Entering Snake Creek

 Palm Sunday

 

 

 

Stopped for lunch

 The second half of the Publix sub I bought on Saturday.  Online ordering is a wonderful thing.

It is April 24 2015 as  compose this.   I have the same weekend work schedule as I had back in March, so I will be ordering a sub from work and pick it up on the way to where ever I go on April 25.

 Back on Snake Creek

 A piece pink of trash in the duck weed.  I picked it up

The Easter Bunny!

 Entering the Hontoon Dead River

 Which is very much alive

 

 Chicks in the nest?

 

 Into the first canal linking the Hontoon and St. Johns Rivers

 I had to turn around.   Thick weeds, not shown, blocked passage

 

 Canal #2

 Out to the St. Johns

Pie billed grebe

Houseboat

 Right.....

 there!

 

 Back to Blue Spring Run

 

Landed at 2:4

 Parts of the boardwalk are undergoing repairs

 As is the Thursby House.  The 19th century homestead on top of an Indian Mound.

Left the Park at 3:45.