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Here is some information on some of the places you will see on your adventure trips. we visit a variety of places!! You will be able to snorkel,swim,fish and explore many areas to experience the sights and history this area has to offer.
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WEEKI WACHEE SPRING & RIVER – are visited, canoed, and scuba dived by hundreds of thousands each year. . At the spring are two Indian mounds in which Nueva Cadiz trade beads have been found (made for only a short period of time in the 1500’s), along with other articles pinpointing this site as the route(s) of Panfillo Narvaez and Hernando DeSoto. The Weeki Wachee water attraction occupies the huge main spring, with hundreds of bathers there each hour in the summer. Although scuba is not permitted in the main spring, the areas beneath the waterslides can be hand-fanned with mask and snorkel. Along the river are many rope swings, dive platforms, and backwoods beaches to hunt with a metal detector.
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MILITARY LANDING – According to legend, troops taking part in the Brooksville raid disembarked for the overland trek from this site, . . Boat or canoe can reach military landing, either by floating down the Weeki Wachee River from the attraction on Hwy. 19, or by motoring up the river from the park at the Shoal Line Boulevard (CR 595) overpass of the river.
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HOSPITAL HOLE - a major dive destination, this 155-foot spring-sink is perfectly round, spring fed, and is the home to manatees and schools of fish year-round. From the CR.597 Bridge over the Weeki Wachee, look South to the public park boat ramps, put in, and go upstream 200 yards to the second bend of the river. The hole occupies the entire bend! At the bottom of the hole are many items left behind by fellow divers – watches, cameras, and enough dive gear to open a shop have been found here. A hydrogen sulfide layer at 70 ft. and the depths undoubtedly prevent most divers from retrieving lost articles. Fifty feet south of Hospital Hole is a small spring known for harboring fine examples of Paleo-Indian spear-points, as is the area just downriver. The small spring is very tight to get into, almost impossible to get out of. Don’t go in without help to get out!
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JEWFISH SPRING - This was Jack Dempsey and Babe Ruth’s fishing and drinking hole ˝ mi. in the Gulf, off Fillman’s Bayou, just S. of their fishing camp hideaway in Aripeka. It is loaded with all kinds of fish. The spring is 209 feet deep, and has a sharp thermalcline at 50 feet that is unbelievable, at 58 degrees. Although there are Paleo-Indian spearpoints around the spring, and undoubtedly some at the bottom, this is not a dive for the unwary or inexperienced but it is a great spot to snorkel!!
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BAYPORT WRECK – was a 200’ side-wheel steamer carrying turpentine and rosin when it was burned to prevent capture by a Union boat crew. Not much left except the engine and a few gears. Another earlier Union expedition sank a sloop and schooner, which now lie in Centipede Bay, and under the Bayport fishing pier. This is the Gulf entrance to get in the weeki wachee river.
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PINE ISLAND BEACH – is off the end of Bayou Road, N. of the intersection with CR 550, almost at Bayport (the Bayport Inn is your landmark for the turn), and has been the site of numerous lost jewelry items. Often dolphins can be seen in this area along wiyh other marine life.
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CEDAR POINT – (N28° 31.20 W82° 40.17) is just south of Fiddler’s point, and was the site of a Paleo Indian camp around 7,000 bc.WOW!!!!
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