We had another early rise and left Orlando at 8am to get to Ichetucknee Springs and meet the daughter of our next host, Genevieve, and some of her friends. The Fletcher Family are friends of Russell Bryant and frequently have his pathfinders to stay. Lyman went to Florida State University with Russell and is now a lawyer, married to Joanna and with two children. They live in Atlantic Beach, 2 blocks from the Atlantic Ocean and a lovely beach, just 30 minutes out of Jacksonville. At the river you park the car at the bottom and get a shuttle bus up to the source, where you hop on rubber rings and float all the way back down (it takes about 2hrs). Unfortunately it tipped it down the whole way so we got very cold, but we
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