River Bluff Picnic Site State Park is a Florida State Park located 10 miles (20 km) west of Tallahassee off State Road 20 on Jack Vause Landing Road. Activities include canoeing, boating, fishing, hiking, picnicking, and wildlife viewing. Among the wildlife of the park are turkey, deer, osprey and bald eagles. Amenities include an access to the 8,850-acre (36 km2) Lake Talquin, a fishing dock, a boardwalk and picnic tables. The park is open from 8:00 am till sundown year round.
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“but we wish the river had another shore,
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—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
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—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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