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This past week was supposed to have been spent in Florida, floating the Weeki Wachee with Bonnie. I didn't make it, but she's down there having fun [she got there before all the virus problem, and decided to stay there rather than return to the Boston area].
Bonnie's photo, my artwork.
You'll have to trust me on this one. What you are looking at is a super-fresh cast skin from a medium sized Black Racer. This skin was perfectly intact and still moist when I found it among the bones of an old fallen tree- a place where I have seen them before. The snake and I were both hunting Five-lined Skinks here this morning, I suppose. The skin, when shed- comes off inside out, like a peeled-off sock. Note the goggle-like eye scales in particular. Cool stuff. I had a little fun posing it among the Cladonia lichens here.
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Sunsets can be very dramatic just by looking at them. Add a lens and camera and you have endless possibilities for creativity. This was a Weeki Wachee location after a thunderstorm.
...on a Sun-day af-ternooooon.... [I'll bet not too many of you remember this melody from 1949, but I can still sing it, and in fact, DID sing it on this float trip.]
Or, is that Cuban Pipefrog? This rather clever and resourceful frog has taken up residence in a 2.5" diameter steel pipe that marks the presence of an underground pipeline here. If approached too closely, the frog simply backs up down the pipe and out of harms way by most predators, I would imagine. I just had too wait him out for about 5 minutes until he thought it was safe to peer out again.
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I am back - TOO soon, way too soon. Can't help wishing I were still down there. It was delightful, even if a little cool - fine weather for paddling the awesome crystal-clear waters of the Weeki Wachi River with the family.
Here, the current is carrying Bonnie along, with no paddling necessary. That's due to all the volume of water gushing out of the spring [the source of all these crystal-clear these rivers]
I am back - TOO soon, way too soon. Can't help wishing I were still down there. It was delightful, even if a little cool - fine weather for paddling the awesome crystal-clear waters of the Weeki Wachi River with the family.
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Just Northwest of Tampa Bay, an excellent area for watching sunsets and fishing as well as docking your own boat or jet skiing. Water is shallow in this area, but there is a newer boardwalk and fishing pier here at Bayport Park.
One of my favorite shots from the Weeki Wachee - Bonnie gliding around a bend, carried by the current into the shadows of a tree tunnel.
Take the train to 34th st. walk over to Fifth stroll to 59th and head into the park. Pick a path north and left to NYHS. After lunch head to Broadway go south the Herald Square, train home.
As the Gulf waters cool down, the manatees begin to head inland, up the rivers towards the many springs [which flow at the same temperature all year long]. Last trip, in late December the manatees were numerous in the upper rivers. Since this trip was in early in December, we saw very few, except for this very large cow and her calf, leisurely making their way up the Weeki Wachee.
The temperature will be dropping below zero [F] tonight...time to head back to the Florida pictures! This is the Weeki Wachee River again; Bonnie has pulled out of the current and is getting her camera out.
Local call number: V-8; BA009; S 828.
Title: [Care and Feeding of a Mermaid]
Date of film: December 1961.
Physical descrip: B&W; sound; Original film length: 8:50.
General note: Excerpt of original. How a young woman learns to be a mermaid at Weeki Wachee. Lessons in breath control, synchronized swimming, diet, modeling, announcing, and how to eat and drink underwater. Parts of performance are shown. Uses underwater photography.
To see full-length versions of this and other videos from the State Archives of Florida, visit www.floridamemory.com/video/.
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850-245-6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us
Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/232381
Frissell, Toni,, 1907-1988,, photographer.
Weeki Wachee spring, Florida
[1947]
1 film negative.
Notes:
Photograph shows underwater view of a woman, wearing a long gown, floating in water.
Title from item.
Image includes Kay Jones.
Photograph is part of FRISSELL - Job 1947-69.
Published in: Sport's Illustrated, 1960. Also published as a frontispiece in Photographs, 1933-1967 / Toni Frissell : Doubleday, 1994.
Use digital image. Negatives are not served to researchers.
Subjects:
Floating--1940-1950.
United States--Florida--Hernando County--Weeki Wachee.
Format: Fashion photographs--1940-1950.
Underwater photographs--1940-1950.
Film negatives--1940-1950.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For information see: "Toni Frissell photograph collection," hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/res.070.fris
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Part Of: Toni Frissell photograph collection (DLC) 2009632520
General information about the Toni Frissell photograph collection is available at: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/coll.090
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.10079
Call Number: LC-F9-02-4712-072-10 [item]