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June 20, 2011

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Little Salt Spring Sinkhole

Into The Sinkhole

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Water is essential and at the same time mystical. Karen Wilkening has been lucky enough to spend time in the Little Salt Spring Sinkhole in Florida. The depths of it hold treasures that fell or were put into the sinkhole over 10,000 years ago.

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