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July 15 | Alafia: It’s mid-July in central Florida, and the Alafia is full of monsoon rain {The Florida Monsoon}. Its waters seem to rise a yard in a day and then drop by the same order, days later. Deadfall that has rested over the winter in safety, is now pushed to the banks byContinue reading “Monsoons and Moonflowers”

The Chassahowitzka River flows west for nearly six miles from Ponce De Leon before dumping into a bay of impassable mangrove keys. Its springshed drains 190 square miles of Citrus and Hernando county, southeast to Brooksville and beyond. It is one of five first-magnitude spring complexes in west-central Florida—the Florida Springs Coast5. The main ventContinue reading “Chassahowitzka”