Blue springs state park

It stormed all night. One boater said there were 1400 lightning strikes per minute. Daytime temps have been in the high 80's and nights in the 60's.

People in the boat next to us at Hontoon rented a car to go home to Jacksonville a few days. Left their boat at the Hontoon dock. Before they left, they gave us their vegatables, eggs, etc. Said to stop by on our way back and they'd bring us some lettuce from their garden. Everyone I've met cruising on the rivers has been extremely friendly. (With the exception of that unpleasant fellow in Mt Vernon, IN.) When I came down the Illinois River people would give us the key to their pick up truck to drive into town and fill our gas cans.

Blue springs state park is just up the river. There's no where to dock so we anchored in an oxbow nearby and took the dink over. They've built a boardwalk back to the spring. Probably so we wouldn't encounter rattlesnakes. I wasn't worried--I wore my snakeproof flip flops.
The water in the spring is 73 degrees year round. Manatees stay there in the winter months. None today.
The photo of the spring shows a hole about 10 feet below the surface. It goes down 110 feet. They let scuba divers go down in it. None today.