Fact: My dad’s side of my family lives in Florida.Fact: My favorite animal growing up was the manatee.
Fact: I’ve been to Florida more times than I can count.
Fact: I’ve never seen a manatee in the wild… Until now.
Today ranks up there for Best Days of My Life.
I was obsessed with manatees for a good 10 years of my life, and collected hundreds of little manatee objects during that time, ranging from earrings, to statues, to ornaments, to t-shirts… you name it, I probably have it.Every time I’d visit my family in Florida, we’d go to Blue Springs Park in hopes of
catching a glimpse of some manatees, and every time I was disappointed. I must have gone to that park over 30 times praying to see just one of those cute little rubber animals.But today, today was different. I drove with my aunt up to the Park on Thanksgiving Day, just as something to do, somewhere to walk around, and when we arrived at the entrance gate, the sign on the Ranger Station said they had 175 manatees in the springs. All at once! Umm… you can imagine I got a little excited. And you can imagine I couldn’t believe my eyes when we walked up to the ramps & bridges overlooking the water and saw 10, 20, 30 manatees floating slowly & gracefully down the river. I managed to take a few pictures and here are some of my favorites.
The only thing that would have made the day better would be to have Jimmy Buffett there…
Yay manatees! :)
Jimmy Buffett - Save the Manatees
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