Used to live in Fla. myself, and yep, you are correct on the cotton mouth
issue. Easy to tell the difference from a water snake once you know wht
you're looking for...... cotton mouths float very high in the water as well/
"Galen Hekhuis" wrote in message
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On 18 Aug 2006 07:12:00 -0700, "Oci-One Kanubi"
wrote:
Good to see you, Galen. You bin OK?
Thanks, been fine. I moved north, to virtually the only whitewater in
Florida (aka The Waterfall State) along the Suwannee River in Big Shoals,
Fl. http://www.floridastateparks.org/bigshoals/default.cfm I don't live
in
the park, just a few miles from it. For those familiar with interstates,
it's just minutes from where I-10 and I-75 cross in Florida. Sometimes
the
water gets up to a Class III, but most of the time it is rather less than
that. Right now the weather is hardly ideal, but during the dead of
winter
this isn't a bad area to contemplate visiting.
When I saw yer message subject I thought this was one of your patented
humerous trolls.
I'm in an area with a lot of overhanging stuff. I was out in the back
pond
in my kayak and didn't hardly use my double bladed paddle at all. I like
the idea of a covered boat (like a kayak) for overhung areas. [I need to
digress a minute here to discuss snakes. Cottonmouths (sometimes called
water moccasins) do not climb trees overhanging swamps. They do not fall
into boats. Unfortunately, the harmless brown water snake here in Florida
does climb overhangs and does fall into boats, although not very often.
It
doesn't help that they look like cottonmouths. But you can bet your sweet
bippy that each and every water snake killed here is a dangerous
cottonmouth about to strike. Just ask the people who have "had" to kill
the snakes.] Using a single blade was absolutely the only way to get
around in some places, but I had never tried it in open water, it just
seemed like a waste of time.
Good to see you and some of the other old names back in r.b.p again
(even the irritating John Kuthe surfaced briefly, a week or two ago).
Maybe this place will rise, as the Phoenix, from the ashes of Burnt
Njall and stinky smoldering spontoons.
Galen Hekhuis NpD, JFR, GWA
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