[Kemba]

I heard that Tarzan was filmed at Wakulla Springs, but anyway, here's my interesting facts:

-The University of Florida was once located in Lake City.
-Florida is home to the largest poisonous snake in the country, the eastern diamondback rattler.
-Florida has 67 counties, 2 of which are named after Hernando DeSoto, Hernando County and DeSoto County.
-The oldest 2 counties in the state are Escambia (Pensacola) and St. Johns (St. Augustine).
-If you drive along Interstate 10 between Tallahassee and Pensacola, you will pass into the Central time Zone when you cross the apalachicola River. Further west, no signs are posted, but you will be driving through Eglin Air Force Base. The Florida Highway Patrol still patrols this stretch.
-Outside the base on a raod leading to I-10 from the Destin area is the very nice Air Force Armament Museum. I went in there, and it is definitely worth a look.
-For those in my neck of the woods; there is only one orange grove left in Pinellas County, and it is along Seminole Boulevard in the city of Seminole.
- Sadly I just heard that state employees have not had a raise in 3 or 4 years, and now they are looking to cut their salaries. Thank God I work for the Federal government.

[beachmouse]

There are also green monkeys aka vervets in Dania Beach. They're allegedly descendants of the residents of a small roadside zoo that were turned loose when it went out of business in the 1950s.

Welcome to Hertz; beware of monkeys - Campus Life
State: Development evolves; they adapt

YouTube - dania beach monkeys

[psouth]

Originally Posted by Lindsey_Mcfarren

Silver Springs

Here is a link.
It was in the 30 and 40s that the Tarzan movies were filmed at Silver Springs and some of the rhesus monkeys escaped. Kind of amazing to think they still have ancestors that live there now.

Trivia - Did Tarzan release his monkeys in Florida? - ArcaMax Publishing

This link seems to say they were released by someone else and had nothing to do with the Tarzan movies.

Down Silver River, canoeists run into monkeys, see gators, cormorants | ajc.com (http://www.ajc.com/travel/content/travel/southeast/fl_stories/0201silver.html - broken link)

This snip speaks of their numbers being reduced but not eliminated AND that you can canoe up the river if your not into the glass bottom boat experience. I'm not sure I would want to be in a canoe if one of those BASKING alligators got hungry.

Thanks for the info. I still haven't been to Silver Springs. Nice suitable for Florida nickname by the way barefoot.

[Sunny-Days-in-Florida]

Originally Posted by psouth

Thanks for the info. I still haven't been to Silver Springs. Nice suitable for Florida nickname by the way barefoot.

Silver Springs is awesome. A cannot miss. I am sure you will enjoy it!
Make sure you take the glass bottom boat tour.

[mquintana]

Tarzan was definatly filmed in Silver Springs.

Originally Posted by Kemba

I heard that Tarzan was filmed at Wakulla Springs, but anyway, here's my interesting facts:

-The University of Florida was once located in Lake City.
-Florida is home to the largest poisonous snake in the country, the eastern diamondback rattler.
-Florida has 67 counties, 2 of which are named after Hernando DeSoto, Hernando County and DeSoto County.
-The oldest 2 counties in the state are Escambia (Pensacola) and St. Johns (St. Augustine).
-If you drive along Interstate 10 between Tallahassee and Pensacola, you will pass into the Central time Zone when you cross the apalachicola River. Further west, no signs are posted, but you will be driving through Eglin Air Force Base. The Florida Highway Patrol still patrols this stretch.
-Outside the base on a raod leading to I-10 from the Destin area is the very nice Air Force Armament Museum. I went in there, and it is definitely worth a look.
-For those in my neck of the woods; there is only one orange grove left in Pinellas County, and it is along Seminole Boulevard in the city of Seminole.
- Sadly I just heard that state employees have not had a raise in 3 or 4 years, and now they are looking to cut their salaries. Thank God I work for the Federal government.

[mquintana]

Yes, that glass bottom boat tour is amazing! Spring water is so pretty to look at but too ridiculously cold to swim in...at least for me.

Originally Posted by Sunny-Days90

Silver Springs is awesome. A cannot miss. I am sure you will enjoy it!
Make sure you take the glass bottom boat tour.

[TriMT7]

The first Tarzan movie was filmed in Wakulla Springs, as were several of the other earlier movies.

Wakulla Springs

[Strel]

Originally Posted by On-da-Beach

I believe the St. Johns and the Nile are the 2 that flow north

Ft. Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas

There is another one in Siberia I think, I forget the name.

[Lindsey_Mcfarren]

After checking out several websites to find the source of the monkeys in Silver Springs, I see that there was more then one Tarzan movie filmed in Florida but there are conflicting stories about how many were filmed at Silver Springs. AND in the end the story of the monkeys getting loose from the filming doesn't seem to be true, it sounded really cool though.

When I first moved here, I was so shocked at the sight of the Sand Hill Cranes, standing as tall as I do, they were amazing. Whenever we could, we would pull over the car and just watch them, my daughter was pretty young and got such a HUGE kick out of them.

I have a friend who lives in a gated community that boarders a wildlife preserve. They have otters in their water hazards in the golf course, the bears hang out by the tennis court and near the front gate I almost always see deer and wild turkey. Its like driving through a safari park when I go there.

This is in Heathrow area, Magnolia Plantation.

[florida know it all]

Florida is the state with the most old people per county.
Florida is the only state that begins with the letter "F".
The state of Florida is surrounded by water on 3 sides.
Florida has the highest number of very poor drivers.