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I'm amazed your photos from the moving boat are so clear! It all looks so peaceful, but was the boat engine loud?
The only time the boat was loud was when we were going REALLY fast, but then it added to the speed. The boat was so small that it really didn't need a loud engine.
Parts of the trip were SO peaceful. There is actually alot more coming up, and each segment was different from the one before. I'm really enjoying going through these photos for this TR.
I tell you I would not go on that river. Far too dangerous. At any minute you could be there minding your own business and then all the sudden a DUCK could attack!!!
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I am really surprised that Capt Mike could hold a Casseopia jellyfish (also called the upside down jellyfish) in his hand!!! i did that once (well touched one) and swelled up for a few days after a painful sting.
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I am really surprised that Capt Mike could hold a Casseopia jellyfish (also called the upside down jellyfish) in his hand!!! i did that once (well touched one) and swelled up for a few days after a painful sting.
WOW! Having a marine biologist around is helpful! Do I have to pay a consultation fee for that?
I actually think I remember him saying something about an upside down jellyfish. Now I am really interested to hear if he got stung and, if not, why?
Paging Captain Mike. Is there a Captain Mike onboard?
WOW! Having a marine biologist around is helpful! Do I have to pay a consultation fee for that?
I actually think I remember him saying something about an upside down jellyfish. Now I am really interested to hear if he got stung and, if not, why?
Paging Captain Mike. Is there a Captain Mike onboard?
No Captain Mike, just little ole me...
Growing up in the keys, I handled many of these little, and not so little, guys. I was one of the few that were never bothered by them, at least in the body areas that were legally exposed. I did jump into a group of them one day without cutoffs on and regretted that They're everywhere, it's really hard to avoid then outside the cleaned beach areas... Of course, as a kid, we headed to the places where humans weren't, especially tourist type humans
As with Poison Ivy, Sumac, and Oak, some people don't react, and I'm usually one of them... Never bothered to try to figure out the why, just had fun with it!
Fantastic pictures Sandra, great memories!!! I've done that canal and that area in a canoe/row boat, no motor. Spent many a day poling, rowing, wading, lots of fun!!!
Growing up in the keys, I handled many of these little, and not so little, guys. I was one of the few that were never bothered by them, at least in the body areas that were legally exposed. I did jump into a group of them one day without cutoffs on and regretted that More Please???
Does this mean that this trip report is now rated PG?
I have been enjoying the pix so much that I did not (until now) tht there are no pix of the narrator. Besides the obvious answer (behind the camera) where are you?
I tell you I would not go on that river. Far too dangerous. At any minute you could be there minding your own business and then all the sudden a DUCK could attack!!!
I have been enjoying the pix so much that I did not (until now) tht there are no pix of the narrator. Besides the obvious answer (behind the camera) where are you?
Here I am!
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They're everywhere, it's really hard to avoid then outside the cleaned beach areas... Of course, as a kid, we headed to the places where humans weren't, especially tourist type humans 
man it up Scott 
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