Big lagoon state park
The wife asked about booking a week here. Anyone who has stayed here, what did you think of it?
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FordDiesel250 wrote:
I believe this is where the movie the Creature from the Black Lagoon was filmed in the fifties
Ahh no, I thought it was filmed at Silver Springs like many other films of the era but no:
"Ben Chapman portrayed the Gill-man for the majority of the scenes shot at Universal City, California. Many of the on-top of the water scenes were filmed at Rice Creek near Palatka, Florida. The costume made it impossible for Chapman to sit for the 14 hours of each day that he wore it, and it overheated easily, so he stayed in the back lot's lake, often requesting to be hosed down. He also could not see very well while wearing the headpiece, which caused him to scrape Julie Adams' head against the wall when carrying her in the grotto scenes. Ricou Browning played the Gill-Man in the underwater shots, which were filmed by the second unit in Wakulla Springs, Florida."
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Palatka and Waukulla are far from this park.
