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Swimming with Manatees: Life in the Slow Zone

by Dolores Parker (RSS feed) on Jun 28th, 2007 at 2:15PM


As far as swimming with mammals goes, dolphins seem to get all the press. However, there's another large, docile, friendly Flipper-like mammal we wanted to get up close and personal with - the Florida manatee. To pay homage to Florida's state marine mammal, we decided to take a family excursion to snorkel with them in Crystal River, Florida, located approximately 1 hour north of Tampa on Florida's gulf coast.

After doing some research online, we decided to book our snorkel trip with American Pro Diving, located in Crystal River, right off Hwy 19. We were impressed with their affiliation with National Geographic, PADI, and Make A Wish Foundation, and we liked their manatee tour video.

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