Manatee Lodge - Tours Manatee Lodge offers a variety tours of the Southern Lagoon areas. The Southern Lagoon is fed fresh waters from the west by the Manatee River, Soldiers Creek and Cornhouse Creek.
Salt waters flow in from the Caribbean Sea by way of the Bar River to the east of the Lagoon.
The Southern Lagoon is connected to the Northern Lagoon by Main Creek. Most of the tours are via boat and are conducted by local licensed guides. Here is a bottom depression, which is fed by warm under ground springs. The manatees rise for air every 25 to 30 minutes. Some are more easily seen as they bear the tags of the local researchers.