Rivers and Streams

We tag along for a Wakulla Springs Wildlife Survey, and the volunteer surveyors share decades of wildlife photos from the spring.

RiverTrek is a five day kayak trip down the Apalachicola River. We explore swamps, camp on sand bars, and meet some locals.

We kayak down the Chipola River in north Florida, stopping to explore a cave called the Ovens, and have lunch alongside a spring.

We venture into floodplain swamps with the new Apalachicola Riverkeeper, mucking around to find the connection between tupelo trees and Apalachicola Bay.

We explore ice age Florida through artifacts and fossils excavated on the Wacissa River, and learn about the archeological methods that tell us their story.

We head under the Silver River in search of mammoth bones. Underwater archeology in Florida is booming, and local finds are rewriting American prehistory.

We kayak to several Wacissa River springs an unseasonably warm January Day. Reptiles were out in full force, and it wasn’t a bad day for a swim.

The upper Apalachicola River has geology like no other in Florida. Geologist Harley Means reads rocks and finds fossils in Means Creek and on Alum Bluff.

We canoe down the Upper Chipola River, a slice of “Old Florida.” That includes ghosts from the 1800s and a little unpredictability while on the water.

Kayak Tate’s Hell and ride with the Riverkeeper through the Apalachicola River delta. These wetlands & waterways are important to the local seafood economy.