Update 2022-07-20: better picture labels and access.
A fine day, balmy, breezy, sunny, with springs and rapids and fine company, from Sullivan Launch to Madison Blue Spring on the Withlacoochee River, in the October WWALS Outing, October 24, 2015. This is part of the Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail, and you can join the committee!
Below are some pictures. Click on any small picture to see a larger version. Pictured: many shoals and rapids. The Pinetta gage (pictured) read 6.4 feet. Any lower and more dragging boats would have been necessary. Lots of cypress, oaks, pines, and other native species.
Not pictured: a large turtle, numerous birds (heron, ibis, hawk, buzzard, others), and fish (mullet, bass). No gators. Very few invasive species, except the notorious Japanese climbing fern.
Coming up next:
- Suwannee River from CR 6 to Cone Bridge, WWALS Outing 2015-11-22
- Grand Bay Hike: WWALS Outing 2015-12-12
Watch the WWALS calendar for more outings and events!
-jsq
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Gathering
Remains of Belleville Bridge, Madison County side 30.5957298, -83.2596435
Pinetta Gage Tower 30.5957374, -83.2598038
Pinetta Gage steps and old-style measure 30.5957374, -83.2598038
Belleville Bridge buttress from below 30.5953369, -83.2596130
Gage pipe and warning on door 30.5953369, -83.2596130
Fallen girders of Belleville Bridge, Hamilton County side 30.5956020, -83.2597732
CR 150 bridge, looking upstream 30.5956955, -83.2594681
Down the Withlacoochee River 30.5956001, -83.2593307
Chris and Deanna picking up trash 30.5956001, -83.2593307
Shoals 30.5941982, -83.2590637
Movie: Shooting the rapids (9.6M) 30.5941982, -83.2590637
Smooth water 30.5842590, -83.2621613
Gretchen and the boaters 30.5822926, -83.2627106
More shoals 30.5819988, -83.2626953
Starting the rapids 30.5819034, -83.2627106
Not bad 30.5819054, -83.2627029
Ripples 30.5814247, -83.2629699
A spring: Coffee Spring 30.5775184, -83.2618179
Boating in the spring 30.5775299, -83.2618256
Another spring 30.5776119, -83.2620239
Froth 30.5762119, -83.2609482
Sun beams 30.5761909, -83.2609329
Sighting the rapids 30.5697098, -83.2624817
Two directions 30.5679722, -83.2606277
Onwards 30.5626812, -83.2563248
Island? 30.5653133, -83.2575378
Rock bottom
The other side of the island
Movie: Sand and rocks (12M) 30.5653133, -83.2575378
Fossils for lunch 30.5626812, -83.2563248
A prehistoric scraper 30.5626812, -83.2563248
House 30.5626812, -83.2563248
Confab 30.5626812, -83.2563248
Could that be karst? 30.5529404, -83.2608642
White water 30.5529365, -83.2608795
Somebody following me 30.5509796, -83.2578125
Spring coming up 30.5446434, -83.2505264
Hardee Spring dam 30.5446434, -83.2505264
Hardee Spring sign 30.5446434, -83.2505264
Hardee Spring steps 30.5446434, -83.2505264
Hardee Spring cavern goes through to a karst window 30.5446434, -83.2505264
Looking out from Hardee Spring 30.5446434, -83.2505264
Onwards from Hardee Spring 30.5444069, -83.2500076
Dan and the rock tree 30.5443058, -83.2500305
Dan and the portrait rock tree 30.5337314, -83.2483062
A boat at a bend in the river 30.5337410, -83.2490692
A net of roots 30.5188904, -83.2391357
Clouds 30.5188904, -83.2391357
Undercut caves 30.5118561, -83.2455368
A boat ramp 30.5118217, -83.2455063 30.501128, -83.242411
This has to be Withlacoochee Ramp Florida Campsites Ramp in Hamilton County.
Looks like Shirley 30.4988537, -83.2424850
Interesting rocks 30.4932423, -83.2414474
Rocks on bank 30.4932537, -83.2414703
Rocks from the river 30.4929829, -83.2421799
Tall rock: petrified tree? 30.4919090, -83.2447128
A familiar shape 30.4918537, -83.2448120
Rapids 30.4910717, -83.2443161
Shirley and Dan 30.4910507, -83.2443466
Shoals ahead 30.4910946, -83.2444839
Shoals behind 30.4903641, -83.2442551
More rocks 30.4902477, -83.2441711
Karst tree 30.4899406, -83.2438965
Narrow 30.4899750, -83.2439499
Smooth 30.4863148, -83.2434845
Green 30.4822121, -83.2433777
Bridge 30.4822121, -83.2433777
Movie: Nearing the goal (6.7M) 30.4822121, -83.2433777
Movie: Bridge1 (16M) 30.4822121, -83.2433777
Movie: Bridge2 (19M) 30.4822121, -83.2433777
Just around those logs 30.4810009, -83.2436981
Madison Blue Spring 30.4809990, -83.2436905
WWALS at Madison Blue Spring –Gretchen Quarterman
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