Message-Id: <199804132314.TAA10157@shell.flinet.com>
From: "Ted Gallo" <tgiii@flinet.com>
To: <baidarka@lists.intelenet.net>
Subject: Re: [baidarka] Whale Encounters Of The First Kind
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 19:01:28 -0400
As someone else has also noted, gators seem to enjoy the contact. I have
run over a few on Lake Okeechobee and was lifted pretty well by one and on
another trip had one hit the side of my kayak rather hard with his tail. A
lot of muddy water came into the boat but other than getting dirty that was
it. In the spring during the mating season they will chase a small boat
for a while and when they ascertain that it is not a threat will end the
chase (thank God).
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> From: dldecker@mediaone.net
> To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
> Subject: Re: [baidarka] Whale Encounters Of The First Kind
> Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 5:32 PM
>
> At 12:42 PM 4/13/98 -0500, wayne steffens wrote:
> >At 09:59 AM 4/12/98 -0600, you wrote:
> >>I am curious to learn of what encounters have been experienced from
> >>whale encounters where someone has had their kayak slammed, bumped
> >>lifted, brushed out of the way or slapped by the tale of passing Orca
> >>or other
> >>whale species.
> >
> >
> >A beaver once collided with my kayak. It was his fault, too.
> >
> >
> >Wayne
> >
> >
> >
>
> I have had a number of gators hit my kayak when paddling in shallow
water
> and sneaking up on them with out knowing they were submerged and it was
> always their fault now that I think of it. I have had Mullet jump and hit
> my Kayak and land on it to. Slimy devils can't get a grip on them and
they
> slide off, of course it was their fault, they were the ones that jumped.
>
> Dana
>