Can You Spot All 8 Lies About Florida’s Springs?
Think a lifetime of swimming in Florida’s springs makes you hard to fool?
We beg to differ.
What follows is a two truths and a lie game about the springs Floridians grew up jumping into.
Each round hands you three statements, two of them true and one of them a lie. You tap the fake.
How well can you score?
Silver Springs
Florida has more large springs than any other state.
Silver Springs sits a few miles down the road from Ocala.
Can you spot the lie?
Weeki Wachee
The mermaid theater at Weeki Wachee is cut into the limestone, below the waterline. Drivers on U.S. 19 pass the gate without a second look.
Can you spot the lie?
Wakulla Springs
You can still book a room in the 1930s lodge Edward Ball built at Wakulla Springs.
Alligators sun on the bank.
Can you spot the lie?
Blue Spring
Blue Spring State Park sits just outside Orange City, where the spring run meets the St. Johns River.
Can you spot the lie?
Crystal River
People in Crystal River build their whole winter around the manatees that pile into Kings Bay.
That bay is the head of the Crystal River, which empties into the Gulf.
Can you spot the lie?
Warm Mineral Springs
Warm Mineral Springs sits a mile off U.S. 41 in North Port.
Most Floridians have never thought about it.
Can you spot the lie?
Ichetucknee Springs
Ichetucknee Springs State Park sits in the north Florida woods outside Fort White, where a spring-fed river runs south to the Santa Fe.
Can you spot the lie?
De Leon Springs
De Leon Springs State Park sits at the north end of Volusia County, off U.S. 17.
The spring water there holds at 72 degrees.
Can you spot the lie?
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It sends Floridians reaching for a second cup of coffee.
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