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Blue Spring State Park is a state park located west of Orange City, Florida, in the United States. The park is a popular tourist destination; available activities include canoeing, SCUBA diving, kayaking, fishing, camping, hiking, wildlife watching, and swimming. The spring in the park (Volusia Blue Spring) is the largest on the St. Johns River.
Avalon State Park: St. Lucie: 650 acres (263 ha) 1987: Atlantic Ocean: Used for frogman training during World War II: Bahia Honda State Park: Monroe: 524 acres (212 ha) 1961: Atlantic Ocean Gulf of Mexico: An island in the lower Florida Keys: Bald Point State Park: Franklin: 4,065 acres (1,646 ha) 1999: Gulf of Mexico: Amphibious landing ...
Lafayette Blue Springs State Park is a Florida State Park, located on the west side of the Suwannee River, seven miles northwest of Mayo, off US 27. It contains one of the state's 33 first magnitude springs , with a daily discharge of up to 168 million gallons.
Scuba divers swimming off the Florida Keys found a gigantic haul of individually wrapped cocaine floating offshore in the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s ...
In the 1800s, the crystal clear water attracted development; 14 Florida cities have "Spring" in their name. [2] Spring names have been duplicated in different parts of the state, such as Gator [3] and Salt; Blue Spring was so common that the county name was added to differentiate between the seven locations. [4] [5]
Florida Caverns State Park is a 1,449-acre geologically unique and historically significant state park in Jackson County, about 70 miles west of Tallahassee. ... Wall Street flirts with a record ...
Florida Keys Eco-Discovery Center: Key West: Monroe: South: Native plants and animals of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, both on land and underwater Florida Keys Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center: Tavernier: Monroe: South: website, wild bird rehabilitation center, boardwalk trail past aviaries of rescued but unreleasable birds
The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary protects approximately 2,900 square nautical miles (9,947 km 2; 3,840 sq mi) of coastal and ocean waters from the estuarine waters of South Florida along the Florida Keys archipelago and the Hawk Channel passage, encompassing more than 1,700 islands, out to the Dry Tortugas National Park, reaching into ...