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On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 19:55:57 -0400 (EDT), justan wrote:
Keyser Soze Wrote in message: On 4/27/17 5:03 PM, justan wrote: Keyser Soze Wrote in message: On 4/27/17 3:41 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: Keyser Soze Wrote in message: On 4/27/17 11:25 AM, justan wrote: On 4/27/17 10:28 AM, justan wrote: On 4/27/17 12:31 AM, wrote: On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 20:21:54 -0400, Alex wrote: The Everglades is full of wide open trails. If you travel off of them you don't want to be going 20mph! In the park itself there are not many places you can use an airboat if any. The intent is to eliminate it altogether. Air boat tour operators who used have an exemption are losing them. Most of this is done on private property. Is that because airboats are considered a nuisance or destructive? What would be your boat of choice for navigating the Everglades? Salt water kayak or flats boat. Go for it, dummy. Lots of people do. How many return? I presume most of them. I still get a Florida fishing magazine, and there are plenty of articles about fishing the everglades off a kayak or flats boat. Most? In excess of 50% is good in your book, I suppose. Not to worry. Since you are a piece of ****, you'll float. My goodness. That mouth of yours is as disgusting as Slammer's. Aparently your thin skin causes you to erupt with vulgarities. If you'd lose a hundred pounds or so you might not get so many fat jokes thrown at you. He did do a lot of complaining about his pustules...or was that about his CZ pistols? |
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On Fri, 28 Apr 2017 05:29:05 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: This one was crafty. After three years it had become large ... about 8 feet and the Florida Fish and Wildlife department set traps to catch it. The traps were hooks hanging on lines from low branches on which a rotting chicken carcass was placed. I watched several times as the alligator approached the chicken, stopped about 10 feet away from it and just laid there in the water eyeing it. Then, after about 15-20 minutes it would submerge and I thought for sure it was closing in for an attack. Instead, it would just swim away, ignoring it. This went on for a month or so. The chicken was replaced every few days. They finally got it however but not by using a trap. They still have not been able to catch the one that bit the guy at my wife's place but they are not really trying that hard. If they sent an old redneck in there at night he would be gone. |
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On Fri, 28 Apr 2017 11:07:23 -0400,
wrote: Interesting. Do the female gators care for their young? .... like a Jewish mother. Dad might eat them tho. |
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Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 4/27/2017 8:05 PM, Alex wrote: Mr. Luddite wrote: On 4/27/2017 4:30 PM, Keyser Soze wrote: On 4/27/17 3:41 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: Keyser Soze Wrote in message: On 4/27/17 11:25 AM, justan wrote: On 4/27/17 10:28 AM, justan wrote: On 4/27/17 12:31 AM, wrote: On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 20:21:54 -0400, Alex wrote: The Everglades is full of wide open trails. If you travel off of them you don't want to be going 20mph! In the park itself there are not many places you can use an airboat if any. The intent is to eliminate it altogether. Air boat tour operators who used have an exemption are losing them. Most of this is done on private property. Is that because airboats are considered a nuisance or destructive? What would be your boat of choice for navigating the Everglades? Salt water kayak or flats boat. Go for it, dummy. Lots of people do. How many return? I presume most of them. I still get a Florida fishing magazine, and there are plenty of articles about fishing the everglades off a kayak or flats boat. It was an attempt at humor Harry. Down the street from the house we had in Florida there was a small business that rented canoes. It was located on a small river, actually more like a large brook, that wound it's way for over a mile through heavy natural growth, trees with limbs that overhung the water and loaded with wild life. The wild life included alligators that stared at you as you floated by and snakes that were hanging in the tree branches. They had never had any attacks but you had to sign a hold harmless statement before renting the canoe. We also had a man-made small lake directly behind one of the houses we owned. The water line was about 20 yards from the deck on the back of the house. The lake had a resident alligator who we saw everyday as it made it's slow patrol around the lake. I had one of those 10 foot plastic Jon boats with an electric motor on it and I often went fishing on the little lake. Saw the alligator a few times eyeing me but he .. it was actually a "she" .. never bothered me. I've previously described the events that happened one day when another alligator tried to move in with her. The intruder didn't last long and it happened right before our eyes. They will run after your bait or lures. This one was crafty. After three years it had become large ... about 8 feet and the Florida Fish and Wildlife department set traps to catch it. The traps were hooks hanging on lines from low branches on which a rotting chicken carcass was placed. I watched several times as the alligator approached the chicken, stopped about 10 feet away from it and just laid there in the water eyeing it. Then, after about 15-20 minutes it would submerge and I thought for sure it was closing in for an attack. Instead, it would just swim away, ignoring it. This went on for a month or so. The chicken was replaced every few days. They finally got it however but not by using a trap. He was probably fed by people. That is a big problem and led to the death of a kid at Disney. Their in-house fire department allegedly fed them and they became used to people as a food source - one way or another... The tourist airboat captains have routinely fed the alligators to give their customers a better experience and, of course, bigger tips. They have busted a few fairly recently. Seems tourists record video of everything! |
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On Fri, 28 Apr 2017 17:56:12 -0700, Boating All Out
wrote: They still have not been able to catch the one that bit the guy at my wife's place but they are not really trying that hard. If they sent an old redneck in there at night he would be gone. Better load him up with hooch first, just to be sure. Absolutely. |
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On Fri, 28 Apr 2017 21:44:19 -0400, Alex wrote:
The park is less than 20% of the Everglades. There is plenty of public access left. That is not what the guys are saying around here. The amount of unrestricted public land is rapidly approaching zero (the government owns or controls more than just that one park). There is certainly some privately owned land in the swamp that hasn't been drained for sugar but it is not "public access". Even those people are getting government pressure. ~10 years ago was the last time I was on an airboat and even then they were complaining about how few place we could go. EGNP is owned by the US government. The rest is owned by the state except for some that is owned/controlled by the Native Americans. The state is becoming as restrictive as the feds. Big Cypress, Fakahatchee strand and Picayune strand are all limiting ORVs of all types |
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