Pictures: Fun around the Wekiva River basin

Joelie Bos, 8, visiting from Canada, enjoys the crystal-clear waters at Rock Springs at Kelly Park.

Lynelle Kolk, 15, of Lakeland pauses for a moment among a rock formation while snorkeling down the crystal clear Rock Springs Run in Kelly Park in Apopka.

Tubers ride the current of the crystal-clear waters at Rock Springs at Kelly Park.

Swimmers enjoy the cool waters at Rock Springs at Kelly Park.

Kids peer into the clear waters at Rock Springs at Kelly Park.

Tubers ride the current of the crystal-clear waters at Rock Springs at Kelly Park.

Jennifer Bernatis, top, and Kristi Lee with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, inventory invertebrates at Rock Springs in Apopka.

In 68 -72 degree water Thanh Trinh, center, left and his wife Huyen Nguyen, hat, float in tubes down Rock Springs at Kelly Park keeping cool from the extreme hot temperatures.

Wekiwa Springs State Park: The park and adjoining conservation tracts contain the state’s best bear habitat, a mosaic of scrub, swamp forest, hills and flatwoods. The park now covers 7,800 acres and is part of 440,000 acres of protected lands extending 25 miles along the Wekiva and St. Johns rivers and across the Ocala National Forest.

Wekiwa Springs State Park: The park and adjoining conservation tracts contain the state’s best bear habitat, a mosaic of scrub, swamp forest, hills and flatwoods. The park now covers 7,800 acres and is part of 440,000 acres of protected lands extending 25 miles along the Wekiva and St. Johns rivers and across the Ocala National Forest.

Wekiwa Springs State Park: The park and adjoining conservation tracts contain the state’s best bear habitat, a mosaic of scrub, swamp forest, hills and flatwoods. The park now covers 7,800 acres and is part of 440,000 acres of protected lands extending 25 miles along the Wekiva and St. Johns rivers and across the Ocala National Forest.

Wekiwa Springs State Park: The park and adjoining conservation tracts contain the state’s best bear habitat, a mosaic of scrub, swamp forest, hills and flatwoods. The park now covers 7,800 acres and is part of 440,000 acres of protected lands extending 25 miles along the Wekiva and St. Johns rivers and across the Ocala National Forest.

Wekiwa Springs State Park: The park and adjoining conservation tracts contain the state’s best bear habitat, a mosaic of scrub, swamp forest, hills and flatwoods. The park now covers 7,800 acres and is part of 440,000 acres of protected lands extending 25 miles along the Wekiva and St. Johns rivers and across the Ocala National Forest.

Wekiva Falls in Sanford.

Wekiva Falls in Sanford.

Wekiva Falls in Sanford.

Wekiva Falls in Sanford.

A snorkeler surveys the scene underwater at Wekiva Island, May 26, 2016, photographed during the Orlando Sentinel’s coast-to-coast, sunrise to sunset, single-day journey across the Florida peninsula.

Paddle boarders survey the natural beauty at Wekiva Island, May 26, 2016, photographed during the Orlando Sentinel’s coast-to-coast, sunrise to sunset, single-day journey across the Florida peninsula.

A paddle boarder surveys the natural beauty at Wekiva Island, May 26, 2016, photographed during the Orlando Sentinel’s coast-to-coast, sunrise to sunset, single-day journey across the Florida peninsula.

Beaching it at Wekiva Island, May 26, 2016, photographed during the Orlando Sentinel’s coast-to-coast, sunrise to sunset, single-day journey across the Florida peninsula.

A curious dog checks out the scene at Wekiva Island, May 26, 2016, photographed during the Orlando Sentinel’s coast-to-coast, sunrise to sunset, single-day journey across the Florida peninsula.

A serene scene as a blanket of fog covers joggers, bicyclists exercising on Seminole Wekiva Trail at Lake Mary.

The Seminole Wekiva Trail is crowded. On this day, like others, families stroll leisurely ,passing a inline skater, a bicyclist and a woman on a brisk walk. The Seminole Wekiva Trail crowded January 21, 2006 for biking,hiking, inline skaters,people walking pets and pushing strollers. It runs from Altamonte Springs to the Wekiva River Protection Area west of Sanford. The 14 mile urban trail is built on the former Orange Belt Railway.