We Also Saw

Just a few more things that we saw at Wakulla Springs.

A huge alligator.

 A tiny alligator.

 An osprey's nest.

 A little blue heron with a turtle friend.

 A moorhen.

 A wood duck.

And a yellow-crowned night heron! (Not a black-crowned one as originally reported, but still really cool. You hardly ever see them during the day.)

Hidden Pictures

Hiding in these pictures: a great egret, an alligator, a row of turtles, and another great egret.

The Great Blueness

 So David and I went to Wakulla Springs to celebrate our 9th anniversary, and I have pictures of alligators and turtles and birds that I'm going to post later. But first I just want to show you the water. Look at this water!

This is looking down into the deepest part of the spring pool, the 185-foot drop to the entrance of the world's largest underwater cave system. Usually the water here is black and mysterious. Today it was a brilliant, shimmering, luminous blue.

 Bluer than I've ever seen it before.

 In the shallow parts of the spring, the water was clear, and we could see all of the underwater plant life.

 We watched schools of blue-gray mullet swimming past.

Our tour guide said that the water gets this blue about one week out of the year.