Florida has many great state parks, and one of them at Homasassa Springs, protects manatees that can be viewed all year long. We stopped there and took a boat ride up the creek to the park entrance, seeing birds and turtles along the way. They have an underwater viewing room so you can watch the manatees in an aquarium setting.
Manatees need warm water, so they come upstream to warm springs every winter. The springs are a constant 72 degrees. They are so ugly they're cute. People here love them. We've seen several manatee shaped mailboxes . . . quite an oddity. We also saw manatees at our next campsite. We were parked next to a pond near the Suwanee River and two manatees were feeding right outside the RV window. Quite a show!
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