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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2014 21:30:11 GMT
Okay, this a slightly south of reports that you may have read about places like Cedar Key, and all I can say is that if those fabulous reports bored you, this one is pretty much the same because the sights in the Homosassa Springs State Park are extremely similar, but let's face it, the name is funnier. Well "homo" means "pepper" in the Muskogee language and "sasi" means "is there." So it is "the place where the peppers grow" and should not be mistaken with Key West. I'm sure the park has evolved since I was there, because it was already undergoing changes back then. Like a lot of old time Florida attractions, there was little consideration in early days for authenticity, so it originally had a "monkey island" and various other "zoo animals" not native to Florida. On this particular visit, the monkeys had been sent packing already, but there were still animals like the hippopotamus (photo later) which were more difficult to displace and in fact basically cruel to do so when such animals had been settled in to a nearly natural environment for so long.
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Post by htmb on Jan 17, 2014 21:54:35 GMT
Bravo! I'm very glad you found your pictures!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2014 22:11:32 GMT
Well, I haven't found all of the photos yet, because this set of pictures does not have a single manatee, which are the main attraction of the park! I still need to find another set of photos in which manatees were indeed admired.
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Post by htmb on Jan 17, 2014 22:23:09 GMT
You might have to make another visit so you can take new manatee pictures. Any idea the year(s)you took these photographs? Hard to believe you never made it to Weeki Wachee.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2014 16:16:58 GMT
That's all until I find the manatee photos...
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Post by anshjain97 on Jan 19, 2014 12:05:39 GMT
Great- I'm learning more and more about the US everyday!
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Post by breeze on Feb 16, 2015 20:14:26 GMT
Such evocative photos. Everything looks lush, green, and swampy--Homosassa Springs is everything PA is not right now.
On the plus side, we have no alligators in our hills.
Please reassure me that there's chainlink fence between the photographer and the alligators.
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Post by htmb on Feb 16, 2015 20:29:34 GMT
Chain link fences are the norm at the park. You can see them in many of my photos, as they irritatingly got in my line of sight, but the park is a very safe space for visitors to wander.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2015 20:48:33 GMT
Unless you have a phobia of squirrels running up your leg if you are holding anything that looks edible to them.
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Post by htmb on Feb 16, 2015 22:02:19 GMT
Sorry, Kerouac. Our threads have the same titles and I thought this was mine when I replied to Breeze.
Do you have any idea when you took your photos?
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Post by lola on Feb 17, 2015 4:02:46 GMT
Yow, I was just down the road from there two weeks ago. The birds are my favorites.
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