Yeah, I remember all of this. Good times! We picked up some nice wood on those excursions too.
In fact, I've been living in Gainesville for the last 3 years before I moved back South to the Palm Beaches just a month or so ago. Lots fun at the Plant-feasts I attended with you and the others.
The Santa Fe River is back up and flowing again and you don't have to drag your canoe over rocks in the dried up areas anymore.
There's still plenty of Crypts growing at Rainbow Springs even after they attempted to kill them off. Good luck with that project. They just broke off a bunch more trying to rake them all up, most of which promptly floated off to colonize many other areas downstream since they didn't want to use poison in their futile attempt for obvious reasons.
Found a guy down here who has a whole dead, still pond full of C. usteriana, which is weird cause usually they like moving water like at Rainbow River, unless they're the blackwater type.
Florida is a good place for tropical plants and aquatics, that's for sure.