Alligator Creek
The District’s SWIM Program is celebrating 30 years. Get a glimpse of the latest project on the Alligator Creek property, which is part of the Charlotte Harbor Preserve State Park.
Deep Creek Preserve: Free Gulf Coast Florida Camping
Boondocking at the great western Florida crossroad of Arcadia!
Got to see the Gulf and visit family in Bradenton. Thanks for visiting (I spelled it wrong in the video, ARG!) us at camp!
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Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery
Learn about Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery, the fourth of now ten conservation burial grounds in the United States.
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Exploring at San Felasco Hammock Preserve State Park
Hiking the wilderness at San Felasco Hammock Preserve State Park located in Alachua County, Florida. It is a great place to explore with a variety of habitats and interesting history to experience along the way.
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Kayaking, Punta Gorda Florida, and Surrounding Rivers
Kayaking the Rivers in Charlotte County Florida
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Babcock Ranch Eco Tours - Punta Gorda, Florida
Babcock Ranch Eco-Tour takes you on 90 minute eco-tour through the Babcock Ranch. You will travel through the working cattle ranch and learn its history, wander through Florida eco-systems, all the while getting up close and personal with the local wildlife.
The Crescent B Ranch is still a working cattle ranch. With over 14,000 acres in pasture land, the horse is vital to the ranch operation.
Wild turkeys can be spotted in both pine flatwoods and on the fingers of the prairies.
On the prairies and at the edges of the pine flatwoods, you might spot the occasional caracara. They frequently are seen mixed in with flocks of local vultures.
As well as our beef cattle, you may see “Cracker Cattle”. Cracker Cattle are descendants of the cattle brought here by
the early Spanish settlers.
The soft shell turtle is indeed an amphibious oddity!
The magnificent osprey is often found along the edge of the Telegraph Creek. If you watch closely you may see one swoop down to catch a fish!
Sandhill Cranes are a frequent visitor to the prairie, along with herds of native deer that roam the property. One of the larger members of the squirrel family, the fox squirrel is usually spotted in the pine flatwoods, in which pine cones make up a large part of their diet.
gators fighting pt 1
Okaloacoochee slough state forest. Hendry/collier.
Came upon these guys fighting while out in my Wrangler. if the small ditch at the very entrance to the park.
Midway Campground review in Big Cypress Preserve Florida
This is a close look at Midway Campground in Big Cypress national Preserve located on U.S. 41 in South Florida. The campground is located about halfway across the peninsula, thus the name Midway. I had an interesting encounter with an alligator while fishing which you will see also.
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BOONDOCK FLORIDA: You should never have to do this. Deep Creek Preserves
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naturecoastlandingsrentals LOT #161
Short video of Lot#161 at Nature Coast Landings RV Resort in Crystal River Fla.
Lot #161 is for rent on a daily, weekly, monthly, or by the year.
Second Annual Babcock Camping Trip
Second Annual Babcock Camping Trip. We missed you, Asthin!
Part of the Withlacoochie River at Silver Lake Campground
Snook Loxahatchee Walker Charlotte Harbor Frank
Snook Loxahatchee Walker Charlotte Harbor Frank
Boardwalk Through the Swamp, Mosaic Peace River Park
This boardwalk is part of the Mosaic Peace River Park in the Bartow/ Homeland/ Fort Meade area of central Florida. It has multiple paths and reaches out across a beautiful swamp before ending at the Peace River. Filmed with an iPhone 4S.
Awesome cypress base
Love the cypress trees that are right in the creeks and this one has a particularly large base in a small creek.
The Original Fountain of Youth - Florida Warm Mineral Springs(part 1 of 2)
The Original Fountain of Youth in North Port, Florida
9 million gallons of warm mineral water flowing daily
51 minerals; highest healing mineral content in the USA
87 degrees - perfect for swimming and soaking!
Healing Waters
Warm Mineral Springs is a naturally formed warm water mineral spring. Its temperature is a consistent 87-degrees year-round. Experts agree that this is the ideal temperature for soaking and swimming. Being a warm spring, one receives the health benefits of both a hot spring and a cold spring. Swimming in the warm mineral water at Warm Mineral Springs is both healthy and rejuvenating for your body.
Warm Mineral Springs' water has the highest mineral content in America and ranks as the third highest mineral content in the world! There are over 51 different minerals found in the rich water at Warm Mineral Springs, each one having its own unique health benefits that are absorbed naturally through your skin, helping to re-mineralize one's body and promote health and healing.
Chemical analysis of the water reveals a total mineral content of 17,439 parts per million. This is many times the mineral content of such famed international spas as Vichy and Aix Les Bains in France, Hot Springs in Arkansas, and Baden Baden in Germany. The Warm Mineral Springs' mineral density results in high buoyancy for bathers, which helps to facilitate effortless swimming and the joy of weight-free movement.
Interesting Notes
Warm Mineral Springs is the only warm water mineral spring in the State of Florida, and is the largest warm water mineral spring in the world! The surface area of the spring is a round pond, it is 1.4-acre in circumference and reaches depths of nearly 250 feet deep in the center. The hourglass shaped sinkhole (or cenote) is the results of an apparent earthquake that created the subsurface cave-in some 20,000 years ago. At about 45 feet below the surface there are small ledges that encircle the basin, some of which contain shallow caves. Beneath these ledges the springs body expands to form a large cavity where, at about 148 feet below surface, debris accumulates and forms a Debris Cone that is thought to be over 30,000 years old. (The oldest lowest stratum of rock is estimated to be 20 million years old.) The limestone bedrock, from which the sinkhole is formed, comes from marine rock. United States Geological Society Hydrologists found the porosity of the limestone formation allowed water interchange with the ground water. Water samples collected from the Floridian Aquifer have revealed that the underground water may have taken 60,000 years to filter through the earth before reaching the surface. The discovery of stalactites and stalagmites found in the caves below the spring's surface indicates that the underwater caves were once dry, probably during the last Ice Age.
The spring's main water source originates from over 3,000 feet deep within the earth, connecting to the Boulder Zone of the Floridian aquifer, which is located, some 100m below the present land surface. It produces an astonishing nine million gallons of mineral rich water everyday, as a result, this creates a fresh clean body of water ever two hours!
Nearer to the Surface
A curiosity of The Springs is that the water contains no dissolved oxygen, except at a layer at about 15 or 20 feet thick at the surface, as a result, only a few small minnows mange to live near the waters edge.
A unique characteristic of the Springs' water is that the anaerobic, antibiotic, and high mineral content, act to preserve most non-metal objects that have fallen or been placed into the spring. Because the water contains no dissolved oxygen; neither oxidative process nor fermentation takes place, making the water an all-natural preservative.
Florida wildlife outpost a sanctuary for exotic animals
Nitza Soledad Perez reports from Florida's Everglades on a wildlife sanctuary which focuses on the rescue and rehabilitation of exotic animals. At this outpost, it's not only the battered animals that are saved, but the humans who care for them as well.
Swamp Buggy Tour
Christine Lee takes you on a swamp buggy tour at Babcock Ranch.