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from Gainesville.com (Florida)
By Joey
Flechas
Staff writer
Published:
Sunday, July 22, 2012 at 6:01 a.m.
Last
Modified: Saturday, July 21, 2012 at 11:54 p.m. Video Here
Fowler’s
Bluff
A pirate’s
curse is afoot, and it could be keeping some valuable booty several feet underground.
Here
in this swampy hamlet on the east bank of the Suwannee River, where the air thickens with mosquitoes, a legend of buried treasure
is firmly entrenched in local lore.
For years,
through many landowners, treasure hunters have tried and failed to come up with the loot they believe was buried by 1800s
French privateer Jean Lafitte — some say because such endeavors carry a curse preventing the treasure from being uncovered.
None
have dug up the treasure, with the exception of one rumored recovery that may or may not have happened. . . . Read Complete Report __________________________________
Fowlers Bluff Bar and Grille
Written by; Staff January 15, 2013
The "New Bar" Treasure Camp at the Fowlers Bluff boat ramp is getting
some great reviews. My family and friends have visited the restaurant and shop there several times and the food, TV, and WiFi
have been great additions to the normally off the grid community. We highly recommend using this establishment and add that
it's an excellent change from the previous owner's business philosophy. Go here to read more.
Here's a recent comment from one of our viewers.
Location; Gainesville, Suwannee
comment: As I enjoy 2 homes in 2 great communities, I also enjoy the
quaintness of Fowlers Bluff. My family and on average 2 other families from Suwannee run up the river each Sunday to eat at
the new 'Bar', as I hear it referred to. Yes, they do serve alchohol but also have fabulous food, great service and surprisingly
a family atmosphere. We enjoy our ride up the river as 3-4 families spend time together and enjoy each others company and
top if off with a great meal. My opinion is that the new restaurant adds to your value not detracts! I never liked the ugly,
vacant building falling down from years of non use, how is the new restaurant not better than that? Most fisher folks have
their gear, licenses and necessities before they get that far out from civilization, the restaurant owners have noticed a
need and answered it. Thank goodness, we love it!
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Fishing Kayaks from NuCanoe
Written by
Gary Poyssick on 22 December 2012.
Where the heck did the idea for a fishing kayak
come from? In 1971 a young guy living in the sun and surf of California designed and produce his first kayak from a fiberglass
mold. The first day he slid it across the sand and into that beautiful blue water, he really had not thought of selling them.
He was a high-school graduate on his way to a real life. He didn't think of being one of the top watercraft designers our
country – and the paddling and kayak fishing world – has ever known. But Tim Neimler, and the company he started
would change modern fishing forever. The first ones he built were made in America. Years later, people are still fishing on
his American-made watercraft. Read more...
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Made in America, feature company
written by, Robert Leffew July, 13, 2012
| The Big Tuna Kayak |
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| Jackson Kayaks |
Jackson Kayaks are 100% American Made including the smallest detail. While
talking to Eric Jackson, owner and founder, at the ICAST sport fishing show in Orlando, I discovered that he has returned
a lid on the water bottle he includes with his kayaks because it was made in china. This attention to detail is what makes
his company unique and the leader in kayaks for sport and fishing. Win the "Catch the Big Tuna" Sweepstake and get a free
Big Tuna Kayak. read more
Homosassa
Written by Captain Robert Leffew on July 2, 2012
We
were planning on fishing in Homosassa Bay, just off Chassahowiztka Point and Drum Key, but we never made it out to the flats.
On the way out Mason Creek, just south of the Homosassa River Channel, we stopped to toss a couple of baits along the oyster
beds and small mangrove islands. You never know what you might encounter in the estuary by the Blue and Porpoise Bays, especially
with a full moon and an incoming tide ripping through the cuts...
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Cedar Key Residents Line Up for Water
The almost 800 residents of this island town lined up Wednesday afternoon to receive a daily ration of 2 gallons per
person of drinking water after the Cedar Key Water & Sewer District announced that saltwater intrusion of all three city
wells had rendered tap water undrinkable.
The situation — which the water board first became aware of on May 28 —
was announced publicly Tuesday in an afternoon emergency water board meeting and later at a regular City Commission meeting.
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Light Aircraft Makes Emergency
Landing in
Fowlers Bluff
Written by, Staff
April 28,
2012
The Levy County Sheriff's Office received a call of a reported airplane crash in
the Fowlers Bluff area. Shortly after 3 PM Sgt. Danny Turner arrived on the scene and discovered a single engine Cessna upside
down and partially blocking the south bound lane on County Road 347.
The investigation revealed that the pilot and two passengers were flying from Marathon and they were in route to Tallahassee.
For unknown reasons the Cessna had total engine failure at an altitude of approximately 2500 feet. The pilot, Clifford
Rydell, 51 made an emergency landing on CR-347 in Fowlers Bluff.
According to Major Evan Sullivan the pilot did a great job landing the plane and very happy that no one was injured.
The airplane crash occurred in a very remote area in Levy County and the Watch Commander; Lt. Scott Finnen assisted the couple
by taking them to get a rental vehicle.
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Fowler's Bluff
receiving $2.8M for water system upgrades
By Karen Voyles
Staff writer
Federal officials are handing over $2.8
million to a tiny, unincorporated community along the Suwannee River.
The money is for improvements and upgrades
to the 42-year-old Fowler’s Bluff water system at in Levy County.
In a news release, U.S. Department of
Agriculture officials said the money is a funding package that will allow the community to have clean drinking water while
protecting “A delicate ecosystem along the Suwannee River.”
The current water system was built in
1969, according to the community’s application for the federal money.
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Gulf Sturgeon
Begin Entering Suwannee
Written by, Staff
Increasing river traffic and lower water levels, which concentrate boats and fish into a smaller area, compounds the
problem. In almost all collisions, the victim has been knocked unconscious. In March 2007, Sharon Touchton was riding a jet
ski when a sturgeon hit her. A surgeon later reattached three of her fingers severed in that collision, but she lost a fourth
and a tooth, suffered skull fractures under her eyes and almost bit off her tongue.
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The hard-plated sturgeon can grow to seven feet in length and weigh as much as 170 pounds. They are notorious for leaping
unexpectedly into the air. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, this acrobatic maneuver sometimes
causes them to colliding with boats and passengers. In 2007, nine people were injured in collisions with the large fish, and
one man drowned when the boat he was riding in swerved to avoid a flying fish and the man fell into the water, the commission
reported.
Sturgeon typically spend eight to nine months in the Suwannee spawning. This Florida river appears to support the largest
viable population of these fish.
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Treasure Hunters In Fowlers Bluff
Treasure
hunters digging on a remote bluff overlooking Florida's Suwannee River claim they have found tantalizing evidence that pirate
gold might be at the bottom of a muddy, 13-foot (4-meter) hole.
"We've
found mahogany wood samples, flecks of gold, and gold all over the diver's dive suit [after diving in the hole]," said Tommy
Todd, a St. Petersburg landscaper…
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