Saturday, October 31, 2015

Wall Springs

October 29, 2015
Temperature: 84 degrees mostly sunny.
210 Acres. 

Here to observe the karst topography and springs. 

The park was purchased in the late 1880's by a man named Wall. It was then sold in the 1920's and repurchased later on to go back to its former name. 
 
Wall Springs Park is a spring who has 3000 gallons a minute flowing out of it. That means its 4.2 millions gallons a day! 

There are grazing animals due to the clear water. 

The Ph of the spring is 7 and the salinity is 2-3.






The duck weed covered the whole entire water! 

The Bayou eventually goes to inter-coastal in and out toe the spring. 
The outlet to the bayou salinity is 16-17 with a pH of 6. So it is going up the closer it gets to the ocean. 


Part of the bayou horse shoe crabs and a string ray! 



And out when we got to the ocean water we saw a million of jumping mullet! 

Other things we saw consisted of: Red black and white mangroves, giant leather fern, molted duck, freshwater fish, and a mallard duck! 

This was a very cool site seeing park. There were many cool things and it was a very gorgeous park! 



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