Kayak on the Silver River

The river flows through the park but it's over a mile hike on a sandy trail to get to it, we put in at a county park 4 miles below the park and paddled up stream. The actual "Silver Spring" was another couple of miles. We saw tons of wildlife. No swimming or fishing is allowed and even the turtles wouldn't budge when we paddled by. The birds didn't care. We could have whacked them with a paddle. We saw a bunch of alligators. We made it all the way to the spring and turned around. The river starts at the spring and the water is crystal clear. We were on the water for nearly 5 hours. Here are a couple of pics of the trip.