Location:
This spring is about 3 miles northwest of Oakland.
Drive 3.7 mile west on State Hwy 438 from the principal street intersection
in Oakland, turn right (north) onto a sand road through an old orange grove
and continue for 0.5 miles; the spring is 500 feet north of the end of
the road.
Description:
This site is also called Gordneck Sink. The spring
pool is roughly circular, between 100 and 200 ft in diameter in a semitropical
swamp near the southwest edge of Lake Apopka. Spring discharge is from
a single submerged oval-shaped opening or orifice 5 to 6 ft in diameter
in limestone in the bottom of the central part of the pool. A gentle boil
can be noted at the pool surface over the orifice. The spring flows eastward
down a run about 200 ft to the "Gourd Neck," a narrow arm of Lake Apopka
that curves northwestward from the southwest tip of the main body of the
lake. When spring flow is high, the pool is clean and clear, but when flow
is low, murky lake water may cloud the pool. There is a restoration group
dedicated to Lake Apopka, their web page is here.
Click here for Apopka Blue Sink map
Click
here for another map of Apopka Blue
Click
here for Gordneck Sink map
