Please Note: Active manatee season has ended at Blue Spring. So, to keep it more interesting, we are airing a combination of live feeds without manatees, and — when you are viewing manatees — previously live video that was streamed during the 2011 — 2012 season. Other prior live feeds will also be running during the night until we install our night cameras later this year.

Latest Manatee Update: March 19, 2012
Last Friday, the park staff saw three manatees, and since that time they have seen none for a morning count. Individual manatees may be wandering in from time to time but nothing to count on. With temps in the 80s for highs and 60s for lows, the river is maintaining temps in the low 70s. Barring the unexpected, the manatee season is over.
-- Wayne Hartley, Manatee Specialist

• Read more Manatee Updates from this season.
  
  
• Identify manatees using Wayne Hartley's Scar Pattern Chart. (pdf)
  
  
• Learn about Blue Spring State Park and why it is vital habitat for manatees.

See Other Manatee Videos From The Blue Spring Manatee Cam:

01/23/2012 Manatee Teases Alligator

Closeups

2/01/2012 Manatee
Follows Big Gator

12-28 Underwater Stairs

12-28 Nursing Group

1-16 Good UW Variety

12-01 Cavorting

Note: Any people seen in the videos are researchers or other individuals with special permission. Blue Spring State Park is not open to public swimming or diving during manatee season.

Save the Manatee Club is an award-winning national nonprofit 501(c)(3) and membership-based organization established in 1981 by renowned singer/songwriter, Jimmy Buffett, and former U.S. Senator, Bob Graham, when he was governor of Florida.

Click on the following link or the photo at left to hear a video message from Jimmy Buffett.

Special Thanks To Our Partners On This Project:

Blue Spring State Park, Park Manager Robert Rundle, and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.

Midwest Surveillance

Century Link

Royal "T" Systems

Axis Communications

Blue Springs
Enterprises, Inc.