{"id":141,"date":"2021-01-13T21:47:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T02:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/?p=141"},"modified":"2021-03-19T21:13:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T02:13:12","slug":"141","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"Jan 13 2021 [Rainbow Springs Florida]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_3743-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"139\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_3743-scaled-e1610936247793.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/?attachment_id=139\" class=\"wp-image-139\"\/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">My wife and I visited Rainbow Springs State Park in Florida for 4 USD.  Yes, we wear masks \ud83d\ude42<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_3737-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"131\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_3737-scaled-e1610936048285.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/?attachment_id=131\" class=\"wp-image-131\"\/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Payday candy bar wrappers were the most littered item in the park<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_3744-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"138\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_3744-scaled-e1610936205757.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/?attachment_id=138\" class=\"wp-image-138\"\/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">I am happy to report I only found a third of a shopping bag full of litter<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">My Rainbow Springs, Florida Trashabout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table alignleft is-style-stripes\"><table class=\"has-subtle-pale-pink-background-color has-background\"><tbody><tr><td>Weather<\/td><td>overcast<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Temperature<\/td><td>60F \/ 15C<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mood<\/td><td>rain threatening, but at bay while we visited<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Restoring nature<\/td><td>as needed during a short time in a paid state park<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption>My trashabout experience<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Florida calls their state parks &#8220;the real Florida.&#8221;  Yes, there are lots of famous theme parks like Disney, Universal, and SeaWorld.  They have some great beaches and a large home to our space program.   Surprisingly, I have enjoyed about the same joy as much moseying around beautiful parks in my travels around the large state.  In this short trip during our difficult covid times I looked for an area we could risk traveling to minimizing our risk of covid-19 exposure.  Omassa National Forest and Crystal River area in Florida felt like a safer spot in our United States.  I wanted to see the elephant-like manatees for myself.  Along with some colder Florida weather, we had minimal contact with people while exploring these beautiful parks.   My &#8220;garbidar&#8221; was on as it is at home.  Our first two days I held back my urge to beautify.  On the third day, I brought my work gloves and a plastic shopping bag to continue my cause.  We visited Rainbow Springs State Park.  Admission was 2 USD per person.  I wanted to see how littered a paid state park could be.  I am glad to report I only found a third of a shopping bag full of litter.  My most interesting find was Payday candy bar wrappers.  There was no payday for me, but I my pay was helping out Florida just a tiny bit.  Although these manatee photos below were taken at litter-free Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park, they were also a big payoff and highlight on our trip.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"927\" src=\"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/manatee1.jpg\" alt=\"Manatees swimming\" data-id=\"160\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/manatee1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/?attachment_id=160\" class=\"wp-image-160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/manatee1.jpg 695w, https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/manatee1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Manatees are slow docile creatures<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/manatee2.jpg\" alt=\"Manatees underwater\" data-id=\"161\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/manatee2.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/?attachment_id=161\" class=\"wp-image-161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/manatee2.jpg 695w, https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/manatee2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">They mostly stay still underwater until they need to come up for air<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"927\" src=\"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/manatee3.jpg\" alt=\"Manatees eating lettuce\" data-id=\"159\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/manatee3.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/?attachment_id=159\" class=\"wp-image-159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/manatee3.jpg 695w, https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/manatee3-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">These are injured manatees.  They are eating from the park&#8217;s Manatee salad bar.  They are bigger than normal manatees because they are contained in a safe zone:-)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weather overcast Temperature 60F \/ 15C Mood rain threatening, but at bay while we visited Restoring nature as needed during a short time in a paid state park My trashabout experience Florida calls their state<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-trashabout","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/captainapplesauce.com\/gab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}