Trined 'erpatologists!
I miss Steve Irwin, a man who'd go bombing along in a 4x4 in the desert until he found a rattlesnake den, stand on the brakes and run over and stick his head in there.
Man knew his reptiles, and seemed very much to live life at it's top.
We always enjoyed Steve Irwin while acknowledging his shows were scripted. We didn’t care. He was always fun to watch. For a long time after he died, I had a ‘cartoon’ on my fridge that showed a stingray crying and the caption was ‘I’m sorry Steve, I didn’t realize who you were’. It made me especially sad when I read that the other guys on the boat that day had implored him to wear a ‘chain mail’ vest under his shirt, just in case of a problem. He declined, saying his fans wouldn’t want to see him do that. If he had, he would still be alive. Sad for his family.