In a shameless attempt to totally divert you from the fact that there is absolutely no content here and is not liable to be any for a little while longer (seriously, I’m incredibly swamped and am just holding my own), I’m posting pics and movies from Wakulla Springs. 
For those who don’t know, Wakulla Springs is if not *the* largest and deepest freshwater spring in the world, then one of them. It pours out roughly 250 million gallons of water on a daily basis, and has an incredible and still not-fully explored cavern system. As with everything else in our world at the moment, it is being affected by climate change, the changing watershed, and a host of other factors, but it is a lovely and fascinating place, with an equally fascinating history which includes everything from mastodon bones to the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan movies. There’s a good summary of the timeline here: http://www.wakullasprings.org/FrameTLine.htm.
A rather cool interactive exploration of the spring itself is here: http://www.floridasprings.org/exploration/featured/wakulla/
And Wakulla County has its own page for the springs here: http://www.wakullacounty.org/wakulla-5.htm
Wakulla Springs is now a protected wildlife park, and a river boat or glass-bottom boat ride gives you a chance to see a few things you may not always notice when you’re out and about–even if they’re really there. (Remember, click for bigger on Flickr.) Like cypress knees . . .
a community of turtles in the bullrushes . . .
and a visiting manatee cow (her calf was hiding on the other side) . . .
The riverboat tour was marvelous, and the gent who took us round has a reputation for being fantastic. If you have time and interest, the first clip will give you a bit of the tour . . .
http://rhonna.net/blog-images/DSCN0430.MOV
and the second a bit of an alligator. You’ll have to ignore the intruding cameras and jostling, and yes–that really is a group of school children you hear chattering like excited magpies in the background. They rather enjoyed themselves.
http://rhonna.net/blog-images/DSCN0438.MOV
NB! The clips take a while to load. I’ll edit them down and move them to YouTube for simplicity’s sake later.
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What an interesting place. We’ll need fresh water places like this… water’s running out. Virginia’s had a drought and things are not looking very good here. Very brown and no lovely fall colors. No rain in sight, either.
Thanks for sharing another fascinating place!
Sometimes life gets too busy to indulge in much fiber. Let alone bother with a camera & loading, then editing pictures of fiber project and writing about it. Whoops, there goes the knitting time.
Thanks for throwing us a post! Hang in there!
you go! girl!!!!!Sounds like a plan!
I experienced the exact same thing here (Stockholm), and started a spinning guild. We are now between 5 and 12 people on meetings! And there’s anotherone starting near Gothenburg. I really hope that spinning will get the same interest here in Scandinavia that is has in the states recently. With all the new knitters, at least some must learn to spin too. And everyone counts!
Best of luck to you!
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