09/18/2026
🚨 A pregnant manatee… a male manatee… AND an alligator between us and Three Sisters! 😳🐋🐊
Today was one of those days on Kings Bay where you just never know what you’re going to see!
We were very close to Three Sisters Springs when I was lucky enough to find a large pregnant female manatee with a sub-adult male hanging around her.
Male manatees are known to follow reproductive females, and scientists believe chemical cues play a role in how males locate females. Exactly what signals they are responding to is still being studied.
And then there was the unexpected part… 🐊
An alligator was between us and Three Sisters Springs!
So within this one area, we had a pregnant manatee, a male manatee, an alligator, and the incredible Three Sisters Spring system all in the same encounter.
This is exactly why I love being out on Kings Bay. Every trip is different, and nature doesn’t follow a script.
📍 Crystal River, Florida
🐋 Kings Bay
🌿 Three Sisters Springs
🐊 Florida wildlife
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