This time, for real!
Oh, and the manatee encounter happened last Sunday, Easter Sunday. By coincidence, the day before I told the guy in the video that it had been about 10 years since I had even seen a manatee and that I wished I had a GoPro camera at the time.
Very cool!
Awesome!
Can't top you, but I got a video of me being unexpectedly bumped by a giant green sea turtle in Hawaii because I was snorkeling in a lagoon where there was a bunch of mossy turtle grass they like to eat. I was in the way of it's food so it just moved me by ramming me in the middle of my back. I almost came out of the water like a Polaris missile. It had a head like a football and a shell bigger than my mom's old big round living room coffee table. I'm scared of even little snapping turtles and presumed that this one could snap my arm off if it wanted to.
On that same trip, I got a video of a barracuda zipping around in the same lagoon at warp speed and then I immediately left the water after seeing the recently hand-made sign which read "Beware: The barracuda is back. It will take a chunk out of you."
He was moving at a fast walk. Maybe 7 mph (10ft/sec) tops.
I can't see the video.
Happy April 1st ?
What an experience!!! You had the luck and skill riding with you.
Good video. My old stomping grounds. We used to spend every weekend in Islamorada or Key Largo. Did a lot of scuba diving out on Hens and Chickens reef. My last dive I turned around to see a 5 ft Barracuda sitting at eye level right behind me. I came up over the back of the motor on our boat with a 40 lb backpack like it was nothing. Never went back in. LOL! That was in the good old days where we worked our way down the canals pulling crawfish out of their holes with our hands and free diving off the boat for conch. Good times.
Even back then we didn’t see that many manatee in Islamorada. I saw way more in Jupiter and the Silver River.
That is way cool.
It is lucky that manatees are vegetarians and/or that the babies were not with the manatee. You may have wound up being his/her dinner!
Maybe he was trying to get away from his ex.