I subscribed before, but this video made me ring the bell. It is so nice to listen to someone who knows Florida the way it used to be and loves it still.
Love this channel. Drove through there several years ago, but never knew there was so much history in that county and beautiful small town. Crystal, you are a gem, so we'll spoken and knowledgeable, keep up the good work. Country girls are the best. I used to catch softshell turtles when I was in high school. We set lines in irrigation ditches around orange groves. Brought back a lot of memories. Glad I found this channel.
My g-granddaddy raised around ten kids just off of Holmes Creek around Graceville. My wife & I have Wiregrass roots going back several generations, amen.
Our Creekhouse is off Millers Ferry. We enjoy all the little springs up that way and on the river. Cypress, where we use to swim as kids is just too much these days!!
Thank you for sharing your videos and I have been enjoying paddling up to Cypress Spring and gotten some underwater videos but need to explore more and hopefully I’ll see y’all!
Loved this video! Have been craving going canoeing and tubing down the creek lately and this really helped. Y'all really made it like I was there with my good ol girlfriends! 🤗
Well aincha cute. :) I think we share same values. I found Green cove with friends following a stream of water and hopping trees after Charlie '04. Now it's commercialized. Tragedy! My personal favorite is Rock & Wekiwa (back to back)
Well thank ya! It sounds like we do. So many great places are being commercialized to pieces. It is spreading over this way too. At least a lot of the land here was bought as public preserved space before it was too late. I love the wild free spaces!
@@TwoEggTV I am te amo. Or j'adore Deja (une dia "vous" I love you already and hope to bump into you passing through.) It makes me sad when our treasures of sand castles are replaced with concrete and brick. It truly is a travesty. I lived in a little town of Enterprise Fl growing up (yes, like Spock, only less intelligent life;) and now in Lake Placid Sebring border, no spring but a whole lotta glades and sugar cane fields. Any do terribly miss my fresh cold springs. Ponce DeLeon considered DeLeon springs to be the fountain of youth in his expedition. I think he was close but its Sulphur. Ironically sulphur is related to the netherworld (to be polite) and maybe thats why? Vanity? The egg smell makes unbearable for most but it does wonders for the body, or maybe another "EUREKA!" LOL Inside joke if you know history. ;) I've never been to a hot spring but plan to hit Colorado Utah, NM, AZ in autumn. 4 corners. Not a coincidence, just my name too. :) We should make a date! Although the camera steals our souls by native traditions. Guess we're all F'd! :) I know just about every spring and how to find one. Including the 1s I've yet visited, historically. I love an outdoorsy girl too like myself, 1 not afraid to get boots on, kick em off or just get dirty. I think they call us redneck by tradition, but I think mine as a slight orange (Florida/Trump joke) Thank you for sharing!
Awesome video! I visited becton last weekend since the creek was low. Half of it was blue but still mostly browned out. Miller's ferry spring was very clear though further downstream.
For me.....its the hills of West Virginia. I grew up in a place surrounded by wooded ridges and spent all my free time as a kid exploring that land. One place on that ridge became very special to me and I tended to hang there most of the time. A very secluded spot I called the Dusting Area because turkeys like to dust in the dry dirt at the base of the massive oak trees there. Things change and I was locked out of that spot for 20 years. 2 years ago my buddy texted me in my treestand on his land that that ridge I loved was for sale. I called the owner from the deer stand and next day made an offer. She accepted and I now own that entire ridge including the Dusting Area. It's quite surreal. But I would have wanted no other piece of land more than that particular land.
Being that you grew up on Holmes creek.....how is the population of alligator snapping turtles? I heard they are a little more rare in Holmes than other creeks or rivers in the pan handle?
