When we were there in the early 90s, the guide told us Tarzan was filmed there, and the monkeys used in the show got loose and they are the descendants. Great place to tour.

Always looked forward to the free OJ, as kids we'd get so excited. OMG the lady giving out the OJ today cracked me up, she looked so thrilled to be there!! lol!!! Silver Springs such a icon.

Fun fact the Six Gun Territory theme park was right beside Silver Springs. It's now a strip mall named Six Gun Plaza. Six Gun Territory was the sister park to Ghost Town in the Sky. Also firetruck manufacturer E-One in Ocala has factory tours. Not sure if they allow photos/video.

I have lived in Florida my whole life and constantly pass the state line to visit family in TN. I never knew you could get free OJ at the visitor center! I now live in TN and going back to FL to visit in March. Im stopping to get some! I’m so glad you’re feeling better!

My late husband and I went to Silver Springs a lot. I still call squirrels we bites because of the signs there. I'm glad to see that Silver Springs is still going strong 40 years later. Thanks for bringing back good memories Jacob!

Wow! I didn't realize that the glass bottom boat tours were still a thing. Gives me a reason to make it back to Florida.

Loved this intro to Florida. Remembering all my own visits now and just how much I miss going back there. 🍊🐡🧡

Jacob is such an adorable man

Grew up down the street from silver springs and would go all the time with family. Now that I’ve been in Kentucky for years it was nice to relive this experience! Thank you jakob!

I’m so glad you’re back! Hope you’re healing better now. Sending love. ❤️

Stephen Collins Foster was born in Pittsburgh PA and has a beautiful museum dedicated to him at the foot of the Cathedral of Learning, the world’s tallest educational building, on the Univ. of Pittsburgh’s campus ( PITT ) !

Another great video. Have a wonderful time with your daughter. I know you are a loving father. Thanks Bob Calderon

Love this video carpet bagger and this one is in the bag.

Thank you for this video. it reminded me of my first visit to FL with my grandparents in 71. I was 7. We visited all the spots you stopped at. I haven't been back to Silvers Springs since then. Back then, they would give you bread to feed the fish. I did see some monkeys on my boat ride. My teachers in school told us that they also filmed some early Tarzan movies there and for a while would show off a mechanical alligator from the film as part of the tour.

So glad to have you back but please take care of yourself 👍🏼

I watch many of your videos trying to find places I want go one day… but how cool is it to see a place I’ve actually been! We love silver springs me and my kids have been twice as my parents live in Florida. My dad has been many times even back to his childhood. It’s a treasure !

ocala native here! - my great grandfather worked for silver springs. Awesome to see you there

I remember going to Silver Springs with my family back in 2004 when we went to WDW. That's back when it was more of a zoo-like theme park (I still have a little plastic frog I bought from there), and it was so weird and a little bit spooky watching AdamTheWoo's video from 2013 and seeing it all abandoned. Glad they've continued the old glass-bottom boats!

I love that welcome centre with the baby gators. We stop there every time. There is something so satisfying watching you peel oranges. It could be a thing. Very neat to see Silver Springs.

Glass bottom boats you make the water world go round

im 52 years old the last time i was there i was 5 years old i was born there in ocala and lived 12 miles east of the springs park and back then it was a happening place

My friend's daughter, who lives in Florida, makes those alligator heads as a side business. I immediately thought of her when I saw them! That glass bottom boat looked so fun and peaceful.

My day doesn't feel complete until I have gone on a adventure with Jacob the Carpetbagger! (also Adam the Woo). It's good to have you back my friend. Having said that...... If you need time off from the KZfaq grind we will understand. We do not want to see you get burned out.

I was going through an old photo album from when I was a kid (80's) and came across our black and white photo of our group on the glass bottom boat ours was in a red boat frame. Great they still do this .

I went on the glass bottom boats when I was a kid, such a cool experience!

As a kid I enjoyed Silver Springs more than Disney.

This was great about Silver Springs! My parents tool me there in the 60s. There were huge catfish in the springs. I'm talking 4 to 5 feet fish! I do remember seeing lots of monkeys and them swinging and screeching! I do remember being scared of them. I think the tour guide said that they would swing from the trees and land on the boats sometimes! Great memories of going to Florida with my parents every year! Take care and enjoy your trip❤

You HAVE to go to the Florida state fair in Tampa while in town! It runs feb 10th-22nd..

I’m so glad you’re back you’re my favorite person to watch on KZfaq

I have seen you show some of your traveling supplies and heard you mention sticky hands from your oranges. It got me thinking, I don't ever see you with baby wipes! Life hack, not just for babies. Ever since my kids were young, I always have baby wipes. Fishing, camping, eating fast food, any sort of messy situation, they are the best thing to have. Just thought I would share this helpful life hack I picked up over the years. PS. don't waste money on expensive special wipes, cheap baby wipes work fine, and they will freeze in your car in colder climates. 🤘💙💀

I hope you can make it to Anna Maria Island area!! Highly recommend Rod and Reel restaurant on the pier! Sea Hag is a neat eclectic art display/shop. Lowry Park Zoo is an ABSOLUTE must- many Mold-O-Rama's if you have not been!! Busch Gardens is a top-notch amusement park that I don't recall you vlogging before. Sawgrass State Park is a blast, a self-guided tour on boardwalks overlooking some lakes and marshy areas through either a nature preserve or state park with some educational taxidermy displays and aquariums around the entrance. Homosassa Springs State Park is a beautiful experience with a lot of history and informative pieces- a highlight is a newspaper from when Steve Irwin and his wife Terri visited and filmed in the park!

What a great place! I spend 3-4 months a year in Florida, but I've done and seen so little. Silver Springs looks awesome. Its worth a road trip!

If you are ever through Bardstown KY, you can tour Stephen Foster's home. Glad you're back and looking forward to Florida content.

The old spring site is now so stagnant that it's frequently declared unfit for humans to swim in. In Silver Springs, where the water was once so clear it was as if the fish swam through air, there are now goopy mats of algae so thick that alligators can perch atop them. Sad to see it this way.

"You have to leave all your turds here at the gate." LOL! 🙂

Hello Jacob I hope you're on the mend after your dental surgery and as always thanks for an enjoyable watch! 😄 Absolutely love your videos and your friendly warm energy. You're such an inspirational and uplifting soul and I look forward to watching you on your next adventure! 💖 best wishes ☀️

I’ve always wanted to visit Silver Springs, too

“Leave all your turds at the gate” 😂🤣😆 your so hilarious!

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Loved this video Carpetbagger! Great content as always! I went to Silver springs back in 2002 with a good friend of mine we rode that same style boat you were on. Back then there was a water park attached next door but I do believe that closed down? As the tour guide you had in your boat said there won’t ever be an attraction there or park just the springs the way it is, so that tells me it did close. I know you can’t record every second of the tour but I did remember our tour guide in my boat saying it was the filming location of James Bond movie “Thunderball” I believe that was Sean Connery. Also Lloyd bridges did a series called “sea hunt” was filmed there and as your boat guide mentioned “the creature from the black lagoon” was filmed there. Many old relics of all those movies still remain under water they show you in the tour. I would like to go back to update my memory Of the place and to see it again it’s been so long

As a kid, I used the giant peppermint sticks that I always received in my Christmas stocking as a straw for oranges.

Got to love the orange crocks. I see you dressed for the occasion. My neighbor used to winter in Florida and would send us oranges . I so enjoyed those. Loved the beautiful museum and recognised all but 2 of the songs. Glass bottom boats always intregued me that looked awesome. Keep Safe❤Keep Well ❤

I really loved this video! I visited the museum in the early 1970s and loved the dioramas. I went to Silver Springs in 1997 and really enjoyed it too.

Loved this video as I was in Silver Springs way back as a kid in the 70's and my wife and I went in 1994, well worth going if you're in that area.

Great to see you back! I hope all is well.

Funny about the Steven Foster museum , The movie Blazing Saddles is 48 years old and was just watching the clip of the Cowboys singing That Camptown races ! 🤣

What a wonderful video! I am headed down to central Florida later this week and your show makes me so excited to get there. I live part time in Wildwood but covid fears have kept me stuck in Indiana for the last two years. I haven't been to Silver Springs in years but am definitely going there now. Attractions I enjoy for day trips are Weeki Watchee and the mermaid show and Tarpon Springs and the delicious Greek food and sponge industry.

Dear mr carpetbagger, my late wife (who passed at 27 in 2020) and I honeymooned in Daytona Beach. That was in 2015. I would love to see how it is doing today. Thank you for amazing videos!

I've lived in florida all my life. I've been to silver springs several times, love it. #flogrown

Hey Jacob, do you dislike being called Jake? I always wonder because I usually call you that. Anyway, I hope your teeth feel better! 🦷🦷Take care brother!! P.S. to better get an orange open roll it in your hand almost like you're rubbing your hands together to warm them up with friction except with the orange in between. For some reason it makes the skin come right off! Learned that one in prison! Haha! Love ya Jake glad to see ya back!

Thanks for another great video Jacob. See you tonight

Yay! You got sponsored! Good job!

I just crossed, the state line o Georgia,….yeah, I can still hear them hound dogs on my trail!! (Washed my hands in muddy water) Elvis country song 👍🕺🏼🎼

JBags- missed you man. Good to see you back on that ‘lonesome road’!

I remember the boats and the orange straws. I have 4 cats with various issues so the last few times I was only in FL for 2 days so I just went to Disney. Cool that the boats still exist.

Stunning......for "where should I go?"....I recommend Tarpon Springs, the Greek sponge community

I vote more orange peeling content! The glass bottom boat was really cool, that drop off was something. I got to go on one in Bermuda as a kid and almost fell in the glass pit. I’d love to go on another one. The orange crocs are perfect for this video.

We have done the glass bottom boats many times. I love the older Florida attractions. You're not too far from Weeki Wachee that has the mermaids and Crystal River this time of year has hundreds or manatees with the cooler weather at Three Sisters Springs.

You should go visit Mount Dora. I love their downtown and their park by the lake. Also I went to silver springs in the early 2000s and they had so many more animals there when we went. In 2018 I brought my husband there and was very surprised by how much it had changed. Still love the place though, and my husband was very excited to see a wild alligator just chilling out near the sidewalk.

Glad to see you're feeling better! Nothing worse than a toothache (and I'm an amputee) 😥 have fun at Disney world with your daughter 🤗

Monkey poop and glass bottom boats...and orange meat. Who could go wrong with that combo!

Iron Gwazi is doing pass holder previews starting this week, and at that just the top tier people who can get into all SeaWorld/Busch Gardens parks

I love how taxidermied gator heads just crank up the price when you get to the big leagues. "Yeah, it's $350, and if you don't like it you can go get one yourself."

Glad to see you back on the channel 😊

I have recently rediscovered you and I must say I do not regret it one bit. Loving the videos new and old

I love the glass bottom boats. Did them a few years ago on vacation. Never rode the glass bottom boats when I lived there though.

Captain Citrus...the 70's version of Auqaman. Special power? Makes all the other superheroes their sandwiches 😂

Finally more of the content I subscribed for, orange peeling and citrus reviews.

Stephen Foster wrote My Old Kentucky Home the state song for Kentucky. There is an outdoor musical/play they do every year in Bardstown, KY you can attend. Bardstown was once rated as the number one small town in America lots of stuff there including Bourbon distilleries to visit.

We went to the same Florida orange stand in 2020. Funny thing about the smell of oranges. If have an anxiety attack you can peel and smell oranges and it will help you calm down.

That's a fancy gift, the price of orange juice is skyrocketing.

Great seeing you back on the road buddy!

Lots of cool things to do in St Petersburg! The Imagine Museum is incredible as well as the salvador Dali museum. And check out Tampa Fresh Foods on the way there! It's a grocery store where all of the food is made of felt (and for sale)

You should come to Busch Gardens! If you have a platinum pass to any of the BG or SeaWorld parks, you can get access starting Saturday the 13th to ride Iron Gwazi (passholder previews - it officially opens March 11).

That was fun. I have not been on a glass bottom boat in a long time. Thank you for bringing good memories back.

Don't know where orange juice is going to come from a few years from now. Been watching all the orange farms in central Florida being burned and sold to home builders for a few years now.

Carpetbagger! If you are ever in Texas, you need to check out Marfma. The town has unexplained lights that come out at night. I hope you keep it in mind. Seems like it could be an amazing video!!

YASSSSS You went there Jacob 😀😀😀

Also recommend the Barberville Yard Art Emporium. They sale yard art and its its own road side attraction. Welcome back to Florida!

I love you doing daily vlogs! Helps get my work day started!

me, an ocala resident about to go and venture into the beyond to try and find this man

So good to see you back on the road!

Great to have you back! Try to stop through Mt. Dora - very cool little town!

Beautiful views under the glass bottom boat. Monkeys must be hiding! Great Video!

Jacob you are soo funny! I just love your spin on things.

Hi Jacob! I'm sure you're aware but the Florida State Fair starts this Thursday. I hope to see you around.

Gatorland!! Say hi to Savannah and crew!! Alligator Jim is my fav!! Thanks Jacob! Tupperware used to have a great orange peeling tool!

I recommend Blue Springs state park. They have a ton of manatees there right now, great board walk to the springs and a boat tour. Also about 30 minutes from that you have Ponce De Leon state park. They have the Old Spanish Sugar Mill restaurant where you make your own pancakes. They also have a beautiful spring, museum and boat tour.

Back when I was a kid we had annual passes to silver springs, when it was an amusement park…..used to love going there! You should check out downtown Mount Dora….it’s about 30 minutes north of Orlando, it has an amazing downtown!!

Don’t forget to visit Bok Tower Gardens in Lake Wales, FL. Another idea, Legoland in Winter Haven,FL.

Glad to see you back been praying for you. We just came back from Fort Myers Florida. Have a good time with your daughter. Thank you for the videos 😊

Come check out Sanford, FL while you're in the area. Beautiful historic downtown with some My Girl filming locations, an amazing German restaurant with live music, a tiny houseboat Air BnB, steamboat river cruise, and a lovely little zoo. Would love to finally meet you and show you around.

You cut an orange into wedged quarters. Then peel each quarter from the corner. It's very easy that way. That's how an adult eats an orange.

I wish you could’ve went into the bottom of the bell tower because there’s a small museum there with more of Stephen Foster‘s memorabilia.

shout out skillshare. we love carpetbagger!

Camp town races from Blazing Saddles is funny asf

Take a kayak trip down Ichetucknee Springs You can rent the kayaks nearby and they take you there and pick you up at the end....It's soooooo cool!!!!

So glad you are back on the road! I LOVE museums! And I always enjoy seeing them with you. Thanks.

I would like to suggest you see De Leon springs I've been going there since I was a child and yes I'm 60 so it's been a while my cousins still live there would love to meet you there buy you lunch tell you some stories.

Great to see you back!