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Forget about the maps: All Ponce De Leon needed was some well marked signs. |
But that was as far as I got.
Between parking and admission,
It was over $40 to get in.
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These movies are ageless |
After all, Johnny Weissmuller starred in 6 Tarzan movies there.
Not having more than an hour or so to spare (I was in transit from Gainesville to Naples), I opted for nearby Silver River State Park instead, to which I had a free pass, and from which I figured I would find an alternative route to the spring:
I didn’t. (What was I thinking?)
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This boardwalk looked promising! |
Silver Springs, one of Florida’s
biggest ground water gushers …
Bubbling up at 516,000,000 gallons per day.
That’s 798 cubic feet per second if I did my math right.
And judging from what I saw I think I did.
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Unfortunately for Juan Ponce De Leon, he did not have this map. Silver Spring was among Johnny Weissmuller's favorites. |
As to what I didn’t see:
Besides the spring I also missed the monkeys.
Stragglers or ancestors of stragglers left behind from the Johnny Weismuller days, monkeys are regularly seen climbing in the cypress trees across the river from where I stood.
“We saw them up there yesterday,” a couple assured me.
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Monkey's from the Tarzan era are still there: Presumably beneficiaries of the ageless spring water. |
I could only figure they were back at the spring.
I’m assuming they get in for free!
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