Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge Nature Loop, Cedar Key, Florida
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Cedar Key Shoreline
Watching the water lap at the shore on North Key in the Cedar Keys Wildlife Refuge
The Town of Cedar Key Medium
This quiet island community is nestled among many tiny keys on the Gulf Coast of Florida. It is surrounded by 80,000 acres of wildlife refuge that isolate it from the hectic life of twenty-first century Florida .Cedar Key has been named as one of the best rural communities in the south. The tiny Cedar Key School ,home of the sharks, has received local, state, and national recognition with their award winning F.F.A. programs. Pride runs deep when you are a shark
Cedar Key Florida Travel - YouTube
This place is awesome if you are looking for a quiet, laid back vacation to relax, enjoy nature and just take it easy in the beauty of the Florida Gulf Coast. Fishing, crabbing, kayaking and nature watching are just some of the things to keep your days busy or just read a book, whatever.
Cindy and I loved this little piece of paradise.
Cedar Key is a city in Levy County, Florida, United States. The population was 790 at the 2000 census. According to the U.S Census estimates of 2005, the city had a population of 958. The Cedar Keys are a cluster of islands near the mainland. Most of the developed area of the city has been on Way Key since the end of the 19th century. The Cedar Keys are named for the Eastern Red Cedar, Juniperus virginiana, once abundant in the area.
While evidence suggests human occupation as far back as 500 BC, the first maps of the area date to 1542, when it was labeled Las Islas Sabines by a Spanish cartographer. An archaeological dig at Shell Mound, 9 miles (14 km) north of Cedar Key, found artifacts dating back to 500 BC in the top 10 feet (3.0 m) of the 28-foot-tall (8.5 m) mound. The only ancient burial found in Cedar Key was a 2,000-year-old skeleton found in 1999.
Arrow heads and spear points dating from the Paleo period (12,000 years old) were collected by Cedar Key historian St. Clair Whitman and are displayed at the Cedar Key Museum State Park.
The Cedar Keys were used by Seminole Indians, by the Spanish as a watering stop for ships returning to Spain from Mexico, and by pirates, such as Jean Lafitte and Captain Kidd.
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The Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuge is part of the United States National Wildlife Refuge System, located near Cedar Key, at the western end of SR 24. The 891-acre (3.6 km2) refuge was established in 1929.
The Cedar Keys Wilderness Area (established in 1972) is part of the refuge, and consists of 379 acres (1.53 km2) of its total area.
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Black Bear in Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge
The tail end (literally!) of a black bear that we caught on a game camera set in the Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge. This refuge is located on the Gulf Coast stretching from Cedar Key to Chiefland, FL.
Shell Mound Campground - Cedar Key, FL
Shell Mound County Park Campground - Cedar Key, Florida - March 10, 2017
Kayaking to Atsena Otie Island Cedar Key, Florida
This island was amazing. You can only get to it by boat. It was a 30 minute kayak trip to get there. There is a cemetery to visit from the 1880's and a wonderful hiking treat. Bring bug spray! We had lunch on the dock by the remnants of the pencil factory.The music in this video is my husband and his band.
Kayaking Cedar Key FL
Kayaking around Atsena Otie, one of the dozen islands that comprise the Cedar Keys in the Gulf of Mexico, just an hour from Gainesville FL.
Music: Lamadio Tiado by SackJo22
Shell Mound near Cedar Key, Florida
Shell Mound near Cedar Key, Florida, is an aboriginal shell mound that covers about an acre. There is a nature trail surrounding it, and at one point, there is a nice view that looks out over the estuary & islands.
The mound is estimated to have been started about 6,000 years ago, so it is a very old mound that had long periods of habitation. The main part was constructed, it is estimated, from 2500 BC to 1000 AD.
There are native plants that the aboriginal people would have used, that have been planted around the mound, like Youpon Holly and Coontie.
I was lucky at this visit, that the bugs were not bad. Other visits here, the mosquitoes and deer flies / yellow flies have chased me back in the car before getting out on the trail!
Wildlife Service Baffled by Exodus of Birds From Florida Isle
Tens of thousands of nesting birds vanished this spring from a Florida island refuge where they have come to breed for decades, leaving behind their unhatched eggs and mystifying wildlife officers trying to figure out why they disappeared. Vic Doig, biologist for the U.S. Seahorse Key, said the birds have been coming to Seahorse Key on Florida’s Gulf Coast for more than a century, and in recent times averaging 10,000 to 20,000 breeding pairs a year. Seahorse Key is part of the Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuge which was established in 1929 to protect nesting birds that numbered about 200,000 at the time.
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Shell Mound Kayak Trip 7 3 17
Took the kayaks and the drone out to Cedar Key at the Shell Mound boat launch. Did some aerial recon with the drone to plot our course around some islands in the Gulf of Mexico. Nice day to be on the water but it was a hot one and little to no wind. So much for Brad's sail! LOL
Cedar Key Fishing Pier
The Cedar Key fishing pier has many areas to fish from. The pier also has a cleaning table and restrooms directly on the pier.
Shell Mound Trail
Welcome to the largest remaining midden in Florida, an imposing pile of oyster shells swaddled in forest and overlooking the spot where the Suwannee River flows into the Gulf. Part of Lower Suwannee NWR, north of Cedar Key.
Cedar Key - The Pit - Sheepshead
Indigenous Burial Shell Mounds
2009 April 19 @ Shell Mound Archaeological Site, Lower Suwannee NWR, near Cedar Key, Florida
Walk to the Shell Mound Archeological Site in the Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge. Shell mounds are ancient Native American burial grounds for the indigenous populations of Florida.
Cedar Key Railroad Trestle Nature Trail
In the 1800's this trail used to be a train track and lead to a trestle. The trail is short but worth checking out for the history and scenery. I found some remains from the trestle and railroad along the way.
The first train arrived in Cedar Key on March 1, 1861 and brought with it a new era of prosperity to this island community. Daily passenger and freight services from Fernandina Beach continued until the early 1880s when Henry Plant's railroad bypassed Cedar Key for the larger port of Tampa. Service to the island gradually declined until the last train departed from Cedar Key on July 7, 1932.
The abandoned rail line was quickly reclaimed by native vegetation and wildlife. When development mushroomed again in the late 1990s it became readily apparent that action was needed to preserve some of the pristine habitat areas. The trail project became a viable solution to that need for preservation. Not only did it create a habitat refuge, it also preserved a small piece of Cedar Key's history.
23 endangered sea turtles released at Cedar Key, Florida
23 Kemps Ridley sea turtles, among the most endangered sea turtle, that were oiled in the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill were released into the pristine waters off Cedar Key, Florida, after being cleaned and rehabbed. Retired Adm. Thad Allen, head of the government's oil spill response team, and NOAA Administrator Dr. Jane Lubchenco released the turtles along with wildlife rehab workers.
Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge - Quick Tour
Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge, Citrus County, Florida
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