Last weekend the wife and I took the canoe down the local watering hole and had really unique encounter with a manatee. This particular animal had markings on it's back, almost as if someone marked it to keep track of it. After it hung out for a while it started doing tricks, like doing barrel rolls in the middle of the river, laying upside down, and then slapping it's tail on the surface like a dolphin at Seaworld. The video was taken with our GoPro by my wife while I piloted our small electric trolling motor. It was a great time and pretty unique experience.
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Thanks for sharing that. We don't have such critters in these parts. Might have some catfish about that big, though. BTW, didn't notice an udder on that sea cow so it must be a sea bull.
Brian McEachern, post: 367331, member: 9299 wrote: Last weekend the wife and I took the canoe down the local watering hole and had really unique encounter with a manatee. This particular animal had markings on it's back, almost as if someone marked it to keep track of it. After it hung out for a while it started doing tricks, like doing barrel rolls in the middle of the river, laying upside down, and then slapping it's tail on the surface like a dolphin at Seaworld. The video was taken with our GoPro by my wife while I piloted our small electric trolling motor. It was a great time and pretty unique experience.
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Now that's cool! Thanks for the post.
Very nice video nice edit too
I thought the marks are from outboard prop injuries.
Last manatee that I saw was in NW Fla on a float trip. They do like humans. There was a rare manatee sighting here last year on one of the bayous that feed Lake
Pontchartrain.
I miss my 17ft Ouachita canoe. From 1977 to 1987 it went many miles across waters in NE Texas and Arkansas.
The biggest things I ever saw were the gar in the deep holes just below the dam of Gilham Lake.
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Robert Hill, post: 367340, member: 378 wrote: Very nice video nice edit too
I thought the marks are from outboard prop injuries.
Last manatee that I saw was in NW Fla on a float trip. They do like humans. There was a rare manatee sighting here last year on one of the bayous that feed Lake
Pontchartrain.
Yes, in the brief look at the marks, there appear to be several parallel lines. These are typically caused by props, when the creatures are lolling about subsurface (but not subsurface enough).
rfc, post: 367355, member: 8882 wrote: Yes, in the brief look at the marks, there appear to be several parallel lines. These are typically caused by props, when the creatures are lolling about subsurface (but not subsurface enough).
The marks on the back of this guy were hatch marks, like tallies, "IIII" with a line slashed through as if it said #5. Typically if a manatee has propeller scars they are either somewhat larger than these or more spaced out and not directly in the middle of the back. I could be totally wrong though, I tried to ask it but didn't get a response....
Great video, thanks for posting. Were you on the Loxahatchee?
That is an awesome video. Thank you for sharing.
FL/GA PLS., post: 367364, member: 379 wrote: Great video, thanks for posting. Were you on the Loxahatchee?
Yes, quite a ways up stream too. Water there is probably 75% fresh as opposed to the mouth of the river which is pretty much 100% salt.
