On 4/5/10 8:38 AM, mmc wrote:
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On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:31:50 -0400,
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As for the oyster bar, I bet on the oysters, particularly if they were
seeded on coral rock.

The oyster beds I recall in and along the ICW were seeded on a
muddy/sandy bottom.



Some of the restoration does use coral rock like rip rap stones to
anchor the new beds until they get established. The other method
involves bolding the seeded shell together in wire mesh. Neither are
very "prop friendly".
Florida Gulf Coast University has an active restoration program going
on here using the wire mesh method. Running over one of these beds is
about like hitting a pile of crab traps full of rocks

I guess the ultimate is still the airboat. Too damn noisy though.




I proudly participated in an effort to have airboats banned from the ICW
north of St. Augustine, Florida, because of noise pollution. That wasn't
the only reason to ban them...there were a couple of airboaters who got
their jollies running over the salt marshes.

The airboats were noisier than the jet engines the air national guardies
played with at the guard's facilities at the st. augustine airport.
*That* was simply boys and their toys, and the sonic intrusions were rare.

I recall bassfishing at Orange Lake in Florida many years ago. We were
only catching a couple of fish, but the area was beautiful and it was
the first place where I saw a bald eagle. A few hours into our sojourn
with nature, a pair of airboaters came out, pretending they were
16-year-olds on jetskis. Crikey! Why those who lived around the lake
didn't use the airboats for target practice is beyond me.




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