TOP 5: Natural Lazy Rivers in Florida + Pro Tips to make your experience epic
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.ค. 2021
- Pascale breaks down her Top 5 Natural Lazy Rivers in the state of Florida. Watch for Pro Tips everyone should be aware of before traveling to a lazy river in Florida. #artofadventure #coupleswhotravel #protips
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The awesome thing about Blue Springs is that, even though the tubing section is short (you can see the end of it from the beginning), you can walk right back to the start again so easily. I remember tubing down about 8 times. I was going to do a boat tour but then realized I was having way too much fun just tubing! Tubes were $10 to rent. SO worth it!
Yes! I love it too 😎
Great video! Love Florida and all our natural springs 🧡
Thank you! There are so many to explore. I love it too!
Love and appreciate your videos! Thanks so much😊
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Thanks for all the isnide information. Much appreciated!
🙏 I’m so glad it was helpful!
This presentation is so helpful! Thanks, Pascale & Mo 💦
Thank YOU 🙏🩵
The springs of FL are what I really miss about growing up in FL. Been living out in the Pacific Northwest for the past 6 years, and there's nothing like the cool clear FL springs out here (or the miles n miles of sandy beaches). I used to go to Blue Springs a lot on my days off work. Nothing more refreshing than a cold dip during intense fl summer heat.
Love your video! Subscribed! I like your style and youre very informative! 😊👍
Thank you so much! There is nothing quite like the Florida Springs. Truly Magical!!! 💙💙💙
@@artofadventurepascalemo couldn't agree more ✌️🤙
My mom lives in Oregon and my sister in Florida. I recently explored the gorge this summer and now want to see rock city in park. I live in Detroit. I plan to move to PNW in the next 4 years
I grew up and live in the Pacific Northwest. I can't wait to move to Florida!
Thank you so much for the useful info.
So glad it’s helpful! 🙏
Great info. We enjoy the Santa Fe River. Put in at Hwy 23 bridge/boat ramp and take out at Poe Springs or longer at Gilchrist Springs. 2.5 hrs to Poe or 3.5 to Gilchrist. Poe has raft rentals and shuttles.
Awesome. Thx for the info. I’ll have to float that run!
We have been to the other springs, but not your #1 pick, so we’ll be going, I like how you give information about each one, we have been going to Rainbow River the last four years, and have rented a house right on the spring, it is a wonderful way to spend a long weekend, all ages of our family enjoy it.
Love this! You gotta let me know when you hit #1. Enjoy!
You put out great, well edited, informative videos.
Thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏
Lots of great info! BOOM
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It was so great to meet you at Rainbow River (Swampy’s). Love your sense of adventure and free spirit.
Excellent video and travel tips 👍🤩
Thank you! Great to meet you too! I’m glad you like the video. Help spread the love if you can 😜
Great review and love your cinematography. One tip we live on the rainbow river do not eat it swampy’s go to blue gator. It’s swampy’s has been shut down for unsanitary conditions many times
Thank you for the tip. I’ve been meaning to try Blue Gator. I’ve heard good things. Thx for your notes on the video. 🙏💙
I live in a neighborhood on the Santa Fe. Nice thing about the Santa Fe and the Ichetucknee is that there are no alligators. In the 28 years I have been on these rivers, I have only seen one alligator on the Santa Fe and none on the Ich. Fort White is called the Home of the Ichetucknee, population 500. I live in Fort White or rather near it. High Springs and Fort White are my beloved hometowns. I feel very happy I moved here from California about 28 years ago. I chose my retirement place after many years of studying the real estate in this are. It's a great part of the world here in Florida.
Just got done at Ichetucknee today. We live only 45 minutes away from there and always bring our own rafts. Love this lazy river. And my wife and I were just talking about going to Kelly Park to check out that river. Hopefully we get to meet you at one of most beautiful springs. Gotta love The State of Florida. So much to do and not very expensive to do them.
I love Ichetucknee! Yes… I just put out a video that’s all on Kelly Park/Rock Springs. That’s one of the most beautiful spots in the whole state! Have fun. See you out there 🤙
Awesome.
LOVE your videos. So glad to hear that you can get in at KP HOLE park and ride to Blue Run Park in Dunnellon. Is there a place to put in for a shorter ride toward Dunnellon? Love the options for different lengths of floating time and shuttle at Ichetucknee Springs.
Thank you so much! For a shorter ride on Rainbow, I like to put in at Blue Run then paddle upstream. Go as far as you want, then when you’re ready, just turn around and float back to Blue Run. Free to do that as well and no need for a shuttle! 💙
Rainbow River is my favorite though! Definitely number one!
Rainbow is so good in so many ways!!!
This makes me excited to move there
There are so many great adventures in Florida 🙌
Ginnie Springs is my favorite to snorkel! My husband loves scuba diving there. We live in Homosassa springs. My friend has a beautiful 15 ft blue spring fed water hole in her backyard. The perfect swimming pool! 😊
That sounds amazing! When’s the pool party? 🩵🤿
I live in Homosassa springs 😊 when can I come over? Lol 😂
Love this ❤Thanks for sharing! Not much info on these adventures, especially regarding manatees! I’ve been wanting to see them over the years and now I have more info! I also had plans already to visit Florida for my vacation from work, which got approved! Disney is first and then the rest will come of the stops ! Thanks so much! ❤
Yay! So glad you get to explore Fla 🩵 There is a lot of nature to love! I have quite a bit more info on manatees in the “kayak adventures” video and the “manatee mania” video if you want to check them out too. Thank you so much for watching 🙌❤️
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been in Florida 2 years now. Think it's time to start spring hopping! Rainbow is pretty close to me (Floral City/Citrus County) so I think I'll start there - but Itchitucknee looks amazing! I could do an all day trip there and the price is VERY reasonable! better than Disney IMHO!
Yes! You can’t go wrong with either Rainbow or Ichetucknee! Have fun!
@@artofadventurepascalemo well it's been another year and I STILL haven't been! ugh! what's wrong with me????
@@pam2viph you just have to DO IT! So much fun. So much to see. I know you’ll get there! 💙
Cool channel and very nice videos. Thank you for that. Do you know, if it's crowded in November too? We are from Germany and would like to go there too.
Many greetings.
Hi! November is perfect for most of our springs. Volusia Blue spring run is closed for manatees however. Lots to explore!!!
@@artofadventurepascalemo thx for your answers. And what's about Rock Springs, is it full in November?
@@beakoe8334 Rock Springs is open all year round. I love visiting in Nov and Dec. It’s not too crowded. Especially during the week. Definitely check out my video on Rock Springs. It’s one of the most beautiful in the whole state!
@@artofadventurepascalemo yes, this i just can approve that. Yesterday we were there, we were among the first to be there.
At 9.30 o'clock it wasn't crowded at all.
It was pretty cool at Rock Springs.
Spent there almost 4 hours, with swimming, watching fishes, one turtle and so on.
We got lots of bruises because the rocks 🙈
@@beakoe8334 so glad you had a good time. It’s one of my favorite springs!!! 💙💦
I was sitting wondering WHERE is ichetucknee …
The ONLY thing I miss about Fl. My wonderful ex is a Live Oak native and I camped, swam and partied on these springs long before they became commercial. It appears our favorite spring is now in a residential area (Running, it’s actually 2 springs, right on the River, down from Peacock). One afternoon at 8months pregnant with our beautiful daughter, I was bitten by a sand scorpion. But MANY, MANY wonderful memories.
I think we would get along great! Yes Florida’s best attributes are the springs and the beaches. Now I want to figure out where “Running” is!!! I know Peacock pretty well. I’ll have to do some digging! PS 🦂 scares the crap out of me 😳
@@artofadventurepascalemo Running is a bit further down the “Lulu” road from Peacock. There used to be a very old small church on the left, across from the dirt road that went down to the Springs-a shallow one on the right, deeper on the left, right on the river. In fact we had a rope swing out into the river right between the 2 springs. My eldest tried to go there a few years ago, said there was a gate on the road and you can see houses on Google earth. It USED to be all St Joes Paper co land, the road didn’t have a name, I guess it was just a logging road. Would LOVE to know if you can still get to them from the river though.
There was one point that we camped there every weekend for over a year. Marty’s dad, (a longtime former Fl congressman from Live Oak), would go through a lot of health crisis’s. His parents..I can say, they were 2 of the most wonderful people I’ve ever known. Anyways, it was easier to go back and forth from the Spring than Tallahassee.
I’m not in the Poconos and when I tell people about the springs in Fl, they think I’m nuts. While the hills around here might be pretty right now, and we’ll have the “Winter Wonderland” in a few months, written about right here in the tiny town I’m in…I miss my Springs. Many folks up here think of Florida as beaches and Disney. I had one lady actually argue with me, insisting Miami was the capital, I was an “idiot”, and I was obviously lying about being from Florida. Thank goodness for Google on phones these days.🙄🤷🏼♀️😂. I told another guy about my high school days (and later, working for Wakulla EMS), down at Wakulla, Springs & river. I have a picture I took of the “Tarzan tree” hanging in my hall. Every full moon, my AP Science professor, took us canoeing down the river..we did some crazy things back in the days of invincibility. (ex: skinny dipping w gators). Anyways, he had NO idea that’s where Tarzan was filmed. My late Dad worked at the lodge during the filming and when my friend went home & looked it up..”OMG, YOU WERE RIGHT!,”
Another spring I camped at with a large group out of Tally who has a “Decemberfest” every year…think of it as a small Woodstock, that’s STILL happening. We had it on the Econfina a few years-absolutely STUNNING! It’s a spring fed river near PC (take Hwy 20 from Tally, the “old way” to PC), and I know there’s a good sized spring head..I just never made it. I was busy “playing” paramedic…me and my big mouth…😂
Do Ginny & Alexander still have all the tame squirrels? I had co-founded a wildlife Org many years ago, and we actually released some of our babies down there, (AND at Tallahassee’s “Junior Museum”)-because they were so people-friendly.
@@elaineg60 Amazing! Yes the squirrels do come right up to you! Haha. If I try to find Running which boat ramp should I launch my kayak? Now I wanna look 👀
@@artofadventurepascalemo Anywhere Peacock or above. I think there’s one or 2 springs in between, but you’ll know Running…coming down the river from Peacock, on the left, first shallow spring goes under a short cave before coming into the river-unless the river is high & covering the “bridge”. (OHOH, Just remembered, a VERY OLD railroad bridge just before the springs.. a few hundred yards). Second spring..when we’ve kayak’d down to them, it’s easy to miss bc of the way it enters the river. I remember one time, passing it, looking back, “THERE IT IS!”-and we had spent YEARS going to these springs! The whole time we went to these springs, through the 90’s, there was a huge oak tree that had fallen across the 2nd spring. It’s much smaller than the shallow spring, BUT VERY deep, you could safely jump from the tree. I’ve been texting occasionally with Marty, I’ll text him and see if he knows if there’s still any public access. Our daughter is supposed to call me tonight or tomorrow; I’ll ask her to make sure about my timing..I don’t want to make sure I don’t make his wife uncomfortable.
I just saw, meant to say I AM in the Poconos. Also, I’m glad the squirrels are still honoring the “tradition”. I knew in the early 2000’s they were still being a “nuisance”. 😂. An old friend, in fact the guy who does the yearly Decemberfest, called me out of the blue with “your damned rats are still here!!” He asked me if “Sissy #2” could still be alive because he saw a 3-legged squirrel….uhmm..as headstrong as both Sissy’s were; I highly doubt she lived to 15+, but…you never know! Last I heard our albino families were still reproducing at the Junior Museum, but were no longer as people friendly-which is a GOOD thing. I had hoped to release babies near the springs..but Marty said St Joes rented out land to hunters. I understand “hunting” is a big thing, including with my ex..but we would sometimes bring our “rats” with us when we camped and his buddies, after playing fetch, getting kisses, and even nutty Sissy (1) stealing chicken or bacon off their plates-she stole their hearts. I miss my critters..although NOW? I have Dr Kitty_Leela. A very unconventional kitty who never got the memo on mice..or chipmunks. She sits in the window in the spring, awaiting her friends to appear on our porch so I can let them in to play & cuddle. In the winter..mice move in, and my nutty cat feeds them, plays with them, cuddles with them…I give up.
Are there any springs to tube in the month of February?
Ichetucknee is always a good choice. Also Rock springs if you bring your own tube! Have fun!
Of all these I only swam Rock springs. I’ve been to Blue spring but only during winter so didn’t swim. I’m a swimmer/snorkel not a tuber bc I love seeing underwater. Is it possible to swim the runs at Rainbow and/or Itchutukne? Or are they too long? Does anyone do that?
Hi! Yes you do have swimming options. Rainbow River is like 6 miles from the spring head to Blue Run. I wouldn’t recommend swimming without some sort of float or SUP or something you could use to take a break. There are also boats and jet skis and I don’t think it would be very safe without a marker. If I want to swim Rainbow, I’ll put in at KP Hole and SUP upstream to the spring head. Then paddle downstream (just til you technically leave the park). Then I jump in and swim/snorkel with the SUP just floating next to me til I get back down to KP Hole. It’s about 1.5 miles each way. Ichetucknee, in my opinion, is perfectly fine to swim. You will still need to get a shuttle ticket to bring you back from the end of the run to the main parking lot. I do cover both Ichetucknee and Rainbow in their own videos if you want to check those out. It helps give a little more perspective! Have fun!!!!
Thanks so much! I’ll check out your other videos too.
Not from Florida but considering moving there at some point. I thought you couldn't swim anywhere in Florida due to the risk of alligator attacks. Can you please speak to that as I didn't see you mention it at all in your video. Thank you.
Hi! Yes. Thanks for asking. Alligators do live in freshwater. So yes they are around for sure. The spring heads are very clear and there are enough people and noise to keep them away. If you stay off the banks and in the clear blue water, you should be fine! I hope that helps!
Itchy is the best I’ve been to and the walk back from the south exit is quite nice as long as u have slides/shoes though I have done it barefoot no problem and if u rented tubes u can just leave em by the road where the shuttle goes to pickup from or deflate the tube/a u brought with ya for an easier walk back
I def need to try KP hole park cuz it looks rather epicly🥹
Good tips love it! Yes KP Hole is a must!!!
I absolutely love Blue Springs and have been going since the seventies oh, they do inflate your personal flotation devices for a dollar
It may be a couple of dollars now it's been two years
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Which springs are least likely to have gators? Isn’t the Suwannee River loaded with gators?
I’ve never seen them at Ginnie. But yeah, it’s Florida. So they are around, but generally if there are a decent amount of people, they will stay hidden.
Rainbow River should be your #1
So good right!!!
There is no shuttle for SUP people? I guess just paddle back to KP Hole?
No shuttle that I know of. But if you put in at KP Hole and head upstream to the spring. All you have to do once you reach the spring, is turn around and paddle back to KP Hole. It's actually a really great paddle. A good workout heading upstream.
@@artofadventurepascalemo thank you!
I would assume there are gaters in any, & every body of water in fla., & if a river goes into the ocean. ..I would assume bull sharks could be in there too...
Alligators like fresh water not salt water. So if it’s fresh water, they will definitely be around. Typically if you stay off the banks tho you’ll be ok. Check out my video on Alexander and De Leon for a couple 👀 gator encounters. 🙌
@@artofadventurepascalemoI stayed around Sarasota in the early 80's...a 14 " gator was removed from a pond next to a condo we were building...I had a dog who loved water, but I had to keep him from going in at all times. & at the beach...I had to worry about sharks. Too hot in the summer, too dry in the winter, the locals were hostile, & can't stand the politics. Siesta key was beautiful...40 years ago...doubt it is now. I have friends, & family down there...I may visit, but that's about all...
@@anntrope491 come on down. There’s still a lot of good here. I feel ya tho.
Good choices for 1 and 2
Rainbow river is the most beautiful river in the entire world
And the other one has great water and it’s secluded and not popular
Thank you. Yes I love Rainbow!
What about gators?
Yes there are gators in fresh water. But if you stay off the banks and out of the darker water you’ll be ok. They don’t tend to wander where there are a lot of people. BUT yes they are definitely around. Check out my Alexander Springs video from a few weeks ago for an “interesting” encounter 😳
Any crocodiles 😂
No crocs. But yes gators. 🐊
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Skip the Rainbow...it not all that. Don't waste your time or money.
Start at KP Hole. Different experience for sure!