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Non-breeding adult brown pelican amidst a mangrove forest at John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park. John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park is a Florida State Park located on Key Largo in Florida. It includes approximately 70 nautical square miles (240 km 2) of adjacent Atlantic Ocean waters. The park is approximately 25 miles in length and extends ...
John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park. ... This Key Largo state park is famous for being underwater and boasts four kinds of boat tours, which include glass-bottom boat trips.
Molasses Reef is a coral reef located within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.It lies to the southeast of Key Largo, within the Key Largo Existing Management Area, which is immediately to the east of John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park.
A glass-bottom boat is a boat with sections of glass, panoramic bottom glass or other suitable transparent material, below the waterline allowing passengers to observe the underwater environment from within the boat. The view through the glass bottom is better than simply looking into the water from above, because one does not have to look ...
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The springs were the first tourist attraction in Florida. [3] In the 1860s, Samuel O. Howse bought the 242 acres [3] surrounding the headwaters of the Silver River.Several years after the American Civil War, the springs began to attract tourists from the North via steamboats up the Silver River. [4]
The boundaries of the park changed in 1972, so the statue is now in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, just outside of John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park. The statue is 9 feet (2.7 m) tall and weighs around 1,102 pounds (500 kg), and the concrete base to which it is attached weighs approximately 42,000 pounds (19,100 kg).