Last week I finally had the opportunity to paddle down the Weeki Wachee River. I’ve wanted to do this since my first visit to Weeki Wachee State Park a couple years ago.

The flow heading to the Gulf is powered by a spring of the same name. As a first-magnitude spring it discharges over 65 million gallons of water each day. That’s a staggering amount of water (even more so when you consider that Florida has 33 of these springs)!

It was a great outing for my first time stand up paddle boarding – beautiful 72° water, partly cloudy skies, good friends, and even a manatee sighting. What a wonderful day on the water!