Rainbow Springs

On March 13, 2006, Mary and I visited the Rainbow Springs State Park in Dunnellon, Florida. The park, which features the headsprings of the Rainbow River, covers 1,595 acres containing at least 11 distinct, natural communities: mesic flatwoods, sandhills, scrubby flatwoods, sinkholes, upland mixed forests, basin swamps, depression marshes, floodplain swamps, and hydric hammocks.

This is a first magnitude spring complex, fed by four main vents and with an average flow of 465 million gallons per day. These waters run to the Withlacoochie River, through Lake Rousseau, and finally into the Gulf of Mexico.

A still shot is at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30268343@N00/112326270/

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• Dunnellon
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[pokahoe]

what the hell was that? rainbow is always so damn pretty.