Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park

Welcome to Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park this where you can see West Indian manatees every day of the year from the park's underwater observatory in the main spring. The park showcases native Florida wildlife, including manatees, black bears, bobcats, white-tailed deer, American alligators, American crocodiles, and river otters. As well there are Manatee programs are offered three times daily.

There are over 26 Ecosystems is the park, this due to the variety of many species of animals and mammals, plant and trees. Every Animal lives in a different environment than others, which means a different ecosystems. As I took a boat from the state park down a creek known as Pepper’s Creek which brackish water with lots of canopy cover and plenty of wild life alligator’s lots of turtles and plentiful and beautiful ducks

Pepper’s Creek leads to the entrance to the park and the spring. The main springs of the Homosassa Springs complex emerge from a steep-sided rectangular basin that measures about 90 feet by 50 feet and has a maximum depth of about 35 feet.

Overhanging ledges extend out along the west and southwest walls. The bottom of the basin is very uneven and irregular due to collapsed boulders that line the floor. Springs and their associated spring runs are a unique class of aquatic ecosystems. Since their principal water source is groundwater, many springs have water that is crystal clear, yet rich with dissolved nutrients and gases. Spring ecosystems have been the focus of some notable ecological studies, due to their diverse flora and fauna, and because their stable environmental characteristics generate natural controlled settings suitable for general ecological research. As I do not want to tell you about all the Ecosystems as this is my main State Park project .This is a Beautiful Park and well worth going to see .I spend all day there on 3 occasions Lots to see.