BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: May 11, 2012 09:07PM
On Google maps it looks like it's off of Bogges lake. Looks like pretty
country. Cool pics, as usual.
It must be fun to canoe around where you are.
Did you get the kayak paddle yet?
quasi Report This Comment Date: May 11, 2012 09:45PM
Used the kayak paddle last Saturday and today. Works great!
This is just south of Lettuce Lake, Desoto County.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/05/2012 09:48PM by quasi.
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: May 11, 2012 10:18PM
Very cool on the paddle. Yeah, that's the same spot I saw on maps. The small
waterway the "Black Lagoon" is off of is labeled Boggess Lake. Did
creature have his dino buddy with him?
Do the manatees come that far up river? You mentioned seeing one today so I
guess so. Where we used to live once in a while we'd see seals in the river 9 or
10 miles inland, especially when the salmon are running. They like them salmon.
We've seen sea otters up river too. Not river otters, but actual sea otters. At
least no sharks. Yet.
quasi Report This Comment Date: May 11, 2012 11:17PM
Yeah, the manatee was in Boggess lake and I've seen them several miles upstream
from here, near Fort Ogden. Seen river otters up that way too. And gators -
everywhere, though none today.
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: May 11, 2012 11:33PM
Gators would scare me man. I guess you're kind of used to seeing them though.
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: May 11, 2012 11:44PM
gators are friendly.
quasi Report This Comment Date: May 12, 2012 12:00AM
I'm a little nervous about them because I've been out of the canoe for so long
and in the 25 years since I started canoeing their population has increased
dramatically. Out in the wild, though, they're pretty timid when you're in the
canoe unless there's a momma with babies around which will be happening in
another month or two. The dangerous gators are the ones that live near shore
where some people are stupid enough to feed them so they lose their fear of
humans and begin to associate people with food. I've seen old gators and bold
gators but only one old, bold gator and he was living near people, actually not
far from where I was today. The bold ones don't live long enough to get very big
unless some dumbass is feeding them. That said it's NEVER a good idea to go
swimming in fresh water around here, but some people are stupid enough to do
that too. Last week some dumbass chipped his golfball into a pond and just had
to step into the water to look for it. He got a nasty bite but lived and I bet
he and his golf buddies won't do anything like that again. Last year a 90 year
old woman lost a leg to one that lived in the canal behind her house when she
went down to the water's edge. She lived too but I'd bet that she had been
feeding the thing.
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: May 12, 2012 01:41AM
There was a stupid woman in Yachats who would feed the bears in her yard.
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jgoins Report This Comment Date: May 12, 2012 10:50AM
It is never a good idea to feed any wild animal no matter the species.
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: May 12, 2012 01:20PM
Well, I was wrong about the otters, they are river otters judging by the way
they swim. Sea otters swim face up on the surface, river otters do the opposite.
That's what I get for believing what a coupla yayhoos tell me, huh?
quasi Report This Comment Date: May 12, 2012 03:34PM
You otter've known better, Blah.
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: May 12, 2012 04:08PM
Why, I otter...
jgoins Report This Comment Date: May 13, 2012 12:08PM
Once you lose your fear of the dark do you ever get it back? Once animals lose
their fear of humans I doubt they ever get it back.
