So often in the travel world with dream of bucket list adventures, knowing that if we ever get to do them we’ll spend a small fortune after spending a lifetime traveling to a remote destination. Those ...

It’s one thing to visit an aquarium and gaze in awe at a 1,000-pound manatee swimming just behind the glass. It’s another thing to share the same water with Florida’s sea cows, encountering them in an ...

Visit Crystal River, Florida, for incredible winter manatee sightings, clear springs, wildlife refuges, kayaking, and ...

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Crystal River, Florida, a village perched on the state’s west coast, has a human population of about 3,400 people. During the winter months they’re joined by more than 400 manatees. Those large, droll ...

Crystal River's Kings Bay and Three Sisters Springs hold steady at 72 degrees Fahrenheit year-round, making the area a critical winter sanctuary for hundreds of manatees fleeing Gulf waters that dip ...

How long is your bucket list? Because you better make room for one more item: snorkeling with manatees. Truly nothing else in the world is comparable to this experience. I know because I just did it, ...

Three Sisters Springs is an important 1.5 acre manatee wintering area within the Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge on Florida’s Gulf coast, about 50 miles north of Tampa. The Florida manatee ...

In the wild, Florida’s manatees already face threats from cold stress, habitat loss, boat strikes and other human activities. Now advocates worry about the potential peril that manatees may encounter ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s one thing to visit an aquarium and gaze in awe at a 1,000-pound manatee swimming just behind the glass. It’s another thing to ...