An amazing experience

I organised this tour ages ago and was so excited for today. Manatee season is during the winter so April is the end of the season. I emailed the tour company to see if they will still go out knowing we know it’s at the end of the season.

I was very impressed with Scallops Adventures. It was we just the 4 of us, the guide and the boat captain who owns the company. Joanna also took photos an videos for us to capture this one in a life time experience.

We had a few different encounters but the last encounter was scary and exciting as we found a pod of 7 or 8, and at one time I had 4 manatees under me at once. Josh and Inara accidentally touched one, but they don’t care. You can not touch them on purpose but if the run into you, they don’t care. They are just big blobs with a very big tail that could hurt you if they wanted to.

There are over 100 identified springs in Crystal Springs. The one we swam in was called Hunter Springs and that was found due the owner was building a pool and a spring popped up. The State then took over the land with the spring and this was the clearest and coldest spring we got to swim in.

In the winter you can get 100 manatees in the small crystal area we swam in.

After that tour, even though it was only two hours, we were exhausted from excitement and swimming. Rest of the day was relaxing at the RV.Read more