Silver springs

[Joolz]

What is silver springs? Where is it? Is it worth a visit??

[blott]

Here you go http://www.orlando-guide.info/forums...p?TOPIC_ID=173

It's a great place for a day visit with beautiful springs, animals, countryside, etc.

[Nostromo]

Silver Springs is a very nice Nature Park near Ocala, some 90 minutes drive out of Orlando. If you are in one of the US27 villas, it is a very easy, direct route. We planned to go on all 4 of our previous visits to Central Florida and somehow missed out. This time, WE'RE GOING. It sounds like a wonderful day to relax and slow down among the flora and fauna of the park. They have got 4 animal shows, a botanical garden, a Jeep Safari and three boat rides, the most famous of which is the Glass-Bottomed Boat Ride. There are no big theme-park style rides, but there is an adjoining small water-park called Wild Waters.

[Ana]

I have this on our schedule for July. I read somewhere that it's starting to look really unkept. Has anyone been recently?

[Ray&Sarah]

Hi Ana,

We went to Silver Springs during our time in Florida at Christmas. They do a festival of lights at Christmas which was very good. We didn't think the place looked unkept, and the glass bottom boats were clean, and the guides excellent. The elderly in-laws enjoyed it, but our lads (12 & 14) did not, no white knuckle stuff!

[esprit]

We went a couple of years back and it was fine then, Animal shows? Hmm. I got picked out of the audience and was the one they put a giant taratula on, huge spitting cockroach etc. Thankfully the snake they kept referring to didnt materialise!!
Its a nice ride up 27. You go past a Mediterranean themed community which is worth a look. A lot of Brits buy there long term.

[blott]

I think you're talking about The Villages?

[Nostromo]

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by esprit
We went a couple of years back and it was fine then, Animal shows? Hmm. I got picked out of the audience and was the one they put a giant taratula on, huge spitting cockroach etc. Thankfully the snake they kept referring to didnt materialise!!
Its a nice ride up 27. You go past a Mediterranean themed community which is worth a look. A lot of Brits buy there long term.
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Is there some way we can get my arachnophobic Sister-in-law 'picked' for the Tarantula thing? I want to bet (another) $50 that she won't do it. She is a sucker for bets.

[blott]

Aw, that's not fair Nostromo! You've already got the poor woman on wild rides trying to win bets...

Er, what's she like with snakes? I know the very place...[msnwink]

[Nostromo]

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by blott
Aw, that's not fair Nostromo! You've already got the poor woman on wild rides trying to win bets...

Er, what's she like with snakes? I know the very place...[msnwink]
[/quote]

Hey,that's a good idea! But I'll be running out of $50 bills at this rate. Hmmm, let's see...maybe a couple of Hurricane cocktails at Pat O'Brien's could do it! Blott, where is this snakey place that you have in mind?[}][}]