On June 29, 2014 at 04:17PM, Tom at Watery Foundation published the following article:
Not a Florida mud volcano
It is parochial of me but I think that Florida’s extraordinary water resources rank close to the top of “specialness” for any state. Few if any states have as remarkable a set of water bodies:
- Thousands of streams (both blackwater and spring-fed).
- Thousands of lakes (also of diverse types).
- More acres of remaining wetlands than any other state except Alaska.
- “There are no other Everglades in the world.” (There is one other Pantanal in South America, however.)
- Springs, large and small, exceeding any other place in the world.
- Only continental state with extensive nearshore coral reefs.
- Longest coastline (again, except for Alaska)
- Most important U.S. nesting area for seaturtles.
- Thousands of marine mammals (as well as more than a million alligators and 2,000 crocodiles)
- Several enormous estuaries like the Indian River Lagoon, Apalachicola Bay, Florida Bay, and Tampa Bay.
Maybe that is why so many people visit Florida.
Read this article from Watery Foundation at http://ift.tt/1mKRHnW.
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