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Hidden Spots
Anastasia Salt Run — A Kayak Loop Five Minutes from St Augustine's Tourist Crush
St Augustine gets four million visitors a year. Almost none of them know that on the bay side of Anastasia State Park there's a sheltered tidal estuary, three miles of kayak loop through mangrove edges, where you'll see jumping mullet, the occasional dolphin, and zero tour buses.
Wildlife
Smalltooth Sawfish in Charlotte Harbor — The Endangered Prehistoric-Looking Fish You Should Never Touch
The smalltooth sawfish is the only Florida elasmobranch on the federal Endangered list — a 14-foot ray with a chainsaw nose that lives almost nowhere on Earth except Charlotte Harbor and the Everglades fringe. If you ever hook one, federal law is one sentence: cut the line, don't lift, don't pose.