If Hontoon Island’s tall pines and broad oaks could speak, they would have stories to tell of homesteaders and explorers who ventured to the island and made their homes along the St. Johns River centuries ago. But there were human habitants in this area far before those homesteaders and Spanish conquistadors ever set foot on the island, which sits a few miles downriver from Blue Spring State .
Counting manatees is exceptionally difficult. They spend their time under murky sluggish waters, often have green moss on their backs the same color as the water itself and if congregating, tend to swim above and below one another. Even in the clear waters of Blue Spring State Park, where they estimate almost 1000 manatees are…
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