{"id":9428,"date":"2020-02-01T15:20:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T19:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/?p=9428"},"modified":"2020-05-17T06:50:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T10:50:06","slug":"manatees-of-blue-springs-state-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/index.php\/manatees-of-blue-springs-state-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Manatees of Blue Springs State Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We went north of Orlando a few miles and visited Blue Springs State Park. It&#8217;s January, and the Manatees are here. On the day we were visited, the count was 380 animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blue Springs State Park is based around an underground spring that remains a constant 72 degrees F year-round. When the seawater gets below 66 degrees, the Manatees start looking for warmer water and Blue Springs, with its proximity to the St. John&#8217;s River, is high on the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In summer months, Blue Springs is a popular park for swimming, snorkeling, and scuba diving. The springs offer a chance for divers to explore a cave system that descents more than 100 feet underground. There&#8217;s a campground too, so visitors can spend several days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Manatees at Blue Springs State Park\" width=\"1440\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y-qOK7BBKOM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>The crystal clear waters of Blue Springs State Park are home to Manatees in the coldest winter months, but in the summer, it&#8217;s a popular swimming hole. Snorkeling and Scuba diving are also on the list. The spring that feeds more than a million gallons of water a day river extends down more than 100 feet into the earth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went north of Orlando a few miles and visited Blue Springs State Park. It&#8217;s January, and the Manatees are here. On the day we were visited, the count was 380 animals. Blue Springs State Park is based around an underground spring that remains a constant 72 degrees F year-round. When the seawater gets belowContinue reading &rarr;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,803,6,2172,729],"tags":[2171,711,2170,465],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9428"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9444,"href":"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9428\/revisions\/9444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}