sea cow tipping
Always love getting calls from the Escapes section at The New York Times, because it usually turns out to be something amazingly fun or some extremely photographable place I’ve yet to travel to. Since I live in Florida, it is always both. I got this call a month or so ago to head up to Crystal River, Fla., where the nation’s largest populations of manatees reside. I squeezed myself into a wetsuit (no pictures, sorry) and went on a three hour tour to swim with manatees in the wild.
It was a pretty spectacular moment to have a 6-month-old manatee come up to you and want to snuggle…there is no fear with the manatees in this place, which is obviously a good and a bad thing – sparking a constant battle between the companies surving on giving tours and the environmentalists trying to protect them.
Chalk this experience up to one of those “I can’t believe someone is actually paying me to do this.”
Article is here.
February 12th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
i saved this article, actually – i did the manatee thing a few years back at blue springs state park and want to go back so bad.