thunder wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:41:26 -0500, Vic Smith wrote:

I find this a bit hard to believe.
But maybe not.

http://www.boattest.com/Resources/vi...px?NewsID=3576

Just speculating here, it's a lousy picture, but that "hive" looks more
like a swarm. While bees are normally not aggressive when swarming, if
it took flight, there would be enough bees flying around you to give
anyone concern. I might consider swimming rather than dealing with
them.

http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redco...a-pix/2006/06/
BeeSwarm.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarming_(honey_bee)

That is why I have mothballs in the cabin of my boat. The smell keeps
the insects and chipmunks at bay.

On Jul 25, 11:12*pm, Keith Nuttle wrote:
thunder wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:41:26 -0500, Vic Smith wrote:

I find this a bit hard to believe.
But maybe not.

http://www.boattest.com/Resources/vi...px?NewsID=3576

Just speculating here, it's a lousy picture, but that "hive" looks more
like a swarm. *While bees are normally not aggressive when swarming, if
it took flight, there would be enough bees flying around you to give
anyone concern. *I might consider swimming rather than dealing with
them. *

http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redco...a-pix/2006/06/
BeeSwarm.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarming_(honey_bee)

That is why I have mothballs in the cabin of my boat. *The smell keeps
the insects and chipmunks at bay.

Once took the sailboat out without taking the sail cover off. Got out
there and took the cover off to find it had been infested by paper
wasps. Got the wife and kids below with hatch shut while I sprayed em
with WD40 (only thing I had on hand). I did get stung but I am almost
immune to em, only swelled a bit. They wuz slippery li'l buggers
after that, and fish food.

In summer while canoeing round here, ya gotta be careful near the
banks cuz the wasps make their nests in overhanging branches. You hit
one and it'll be a choice of gators below or wasps above, not to
mention the snakes.

On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:44:39 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch
wrote:

it'll be a choice of gators below or wasps above, not to
mention the snakes.

I understand that cottonmouths will get right in the boat with you.

Casady

wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:57:51 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:44:39 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch
wrote:

it'll be a choice of gators below or wasps above, not to
mention the snakes.
I understand that cottonmouths will get right in the boat with you.

Casady

If they drop out of a tree they will. I think a lot of black racers
get killed because people don't know the difference.

Very true in both instances. Once in a canoe, I scraped up against a
downed cypress tree and there was a cottonmouth on it that came VERY
close to slithering in the boat with me.

IGene Kearns wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:51:58 -0400, NotNow penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

wrote:
| On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:57:51 GMT, (Richard
| Casady) wrote:
|
| On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:44:39 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch
| wrote:
|
| it'll be a choice of gators below or wasps above, not to
| mention the snakes.
| I understand that cottonmouths will get right in the boat with you.
|
| Casady
|
| If they drop out of a tree they will. I think a lot of black racers
| get killed because people don't know the difference.
|
|Very true in both instances. Once in a canoe, I scraped up against a
|downed cypress tree and there was a cottonmouth on it that came VERY
|close to slithering in the boat with me.

Snakes don't fall out of trees.........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_UnV3RbCtg

I get a huge kick out of Bill's bloopers!!!