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It is made up of the Big Bend (Florida) area of the western coast and includes Citrus, Dixie, Hernando, Jefferson County, Pasco County, Levy County, Taylor County, and Wakulla County counties. This area of Florida is southern culturally, with the <a href="/wiki/Deep_South" title="Deep South">Deep South</a> culture reaching to Levy County with the lower southern end (Pasco, Hernando, and sometimes Citrus county) often considered part of the Tampa Bay Metropolian Area. Pasco County is sometimes considered part of the Sun Coast. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_history_of_the_Nature_Coast">The history of the Nature Coast</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nature_Coast&veaction=edit&section=1" title="Change section: The history of the Nature Coast" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor"><span>change</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-divider"> | </span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nature_Coast&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section's source code: The history of the Nature Coast"><span>change source</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The history of the name "The Nature Coast" goes back to 1991 as part of a marketing campaign to attract vacationing people to the nine county area, the name "Nature Coast" caught on quickly and describes the area previously known as the "Big Bend" of Florida. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cPoNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=snsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5428,3535265&dq=nature-coast">St. Petersburg Times article, St. Petersburg Times - Feb 23, 1994</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link since September 2021">permanent dead link</span></a></i>]</span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Wildlife_and_nature">Wildlife and nature</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nature_Coast&veaction=edit&section=2" title="Change section: Wildlife and nature" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor"><span>change</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-divider"> | </span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nature_Coast&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section's source code: Wildlife and nature"><span>change source</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Common activities in this area are hunting, fishing, boating, bird watching, and nature hiking. Snorkeling spots are found in the rivers along the Nature Coast. Also diving and Manatee tours, predominate in areas such as Crystal River, Homosassa and Homosassa Springs. </p><p>The Nature Coast is also home to wildlife such as deer, wild pigs, roseate spoonbills, alligators, raccoons, opossums, snakes, great blue herons, egrets, turtles and countless others, including at least 19 endangered species. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Additional_information_and_facts_about_The_Nature_Coast">Additional information and facts about The Nature Coast</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nature_Coast&veaction=edit&section=3" title="Change section: Additional information and facts about The Nature Coast" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor"><span>change</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-divider"> | </span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nature_Coast&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section's source code: Additional information and facts about The Nature Coast"><span>change source</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The NatureCoast covers 8 different counties and 1 partial county (Dunnellon is a part of <a href="/wiki/Marion_County,_Florida" title="Marion County, Florida">Marion County</a>). It encompasses 980,000 acres (4,000 km<sup>2</sup>). 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