Day Seven:You know that rule that exists in state/national parks that says that a visitor cannot bring home anything from the physical park itself? Yeah, well I broke that today.
I was at Rock Springs, which isn't necessarily a state reserve or park, but it's something akin to that. It's a beautiful freshwater spring in Apopka, FL, naturally created with a river ride included. In the center of the lazy streams is the lagoon area, where one can float about and relax. As is my nature, however, I decided to occupy myself, instead, by sifting through the sand and rocks. While doing this, I realized that each handful was depositing many tiny, tiny aquatic snails into my very palm. As you know, I've been trying to spruce up my fish's bowl lately. In a rushed effort, I bought him a fake plant, only to realize that I really should have bought him the live Java fern. I proceeded to track down the Java fern for him and now he flits through it like a 4 year-old in sprinklers. Until today, I didn't realize that anything was missing. Not until I found those snails. Snails, snails, snails. Horribly enough, I came to the conclusion that the absence of a couple of those little wayward snails from the spring wouldn't hurt the ecosystem too badly. Though there is guilt, the mere sight of Prince Corvette with this snail more than makes up for it.
Any snail name ideas?
For anyone interested in going to Rock Springs, I highly recommend it.
