River snakes

Raven · Posted: Jan 24, 2005 11:26 pm Post subject: River snakes

Anybody else got these? I was putting the boat in and I was like WTF is that a turtle; it was only a 2 footer but still the way it swam with it's head above the water was eerie. It was like looking for something to eat.. fallen wakeskater.

My friend Biggie said he knew of a skier who fell in a kelp patch and was attacked and died from so many bites and so much toxin, and I love riding through the kelp, thats where all the log jumps are.

chriscut · Backside 180 Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 2000

my dad had a friend who was water skiing in Don Pedro when they first built the lake. A lot of snakes were flooded out of their homes and they would gather on anything floating in the lake. She hit a log that was filled with rattle snakes. After that she got 100+ bites then died. Pretty scary sh*#@!

Raven · Posted: Jan 25, 2005 12:55 pm Post subject:

I didn't believe him; but after this second account I guess I do. Thanks eyeareque. That sucks cause all the fun stuff to jib is snake infested. I guess I just can't fall, cause I know I can't stay off the logs. Especially after Lemons sec in FITB.

BillyOLDS · Posted: Jan 25, 2005 1:13 pm Post subject:

chase was telling me that some chick in orlando fell in a nest of water mocasins, i guess she thought she fell in barbed wire cus she had so many blood spots but yeah i guess she died, it so scary riding after that

nick · Posted: Jan 25, 2005 1:31 pm Post subject:

Fcuk snakes dude, I think I'll stick with my 15 ft hammerheads...

Mr. Top Hat · Dead Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 5818

Nick Taylor, im with you, accept we got bull sharks.

RUSSIAN · Posted: Jan 25, 2005 3:44 pm Post subject:

I think I'll stick to the pesticides and what not in the delta. You guys got to many things that can kill you in your water Rolling Eyes

Nekkie · Posted: Jan 25, 2005 3:50 pm Post subject:

bull sharks are the shizzle... They attack more people than the great white Shocked

We got citrus and tiger sharks here, but I haven't seen one yet while riding. Tho I'm sure they are lurking somewhere down there ^^

One kid was bitten while wakeboarding in Raiatea on the leg. But the shark only took a bite and didn't tear anything off. Was a grey shark, we call them Reira. They a frickin nuts!!! When I was diving once I saw one go ape shizzle on a coral... The damn shark was just munching away a huge block of coral Shocked

scary....

s34n · Posted: Jan 25, 2005 4:44 pm Post subject:

You guys should stop making fun of Canada after hearing this stuff... Shocked

The worst thing that could happen to us is maybe get some see weed dangling on your legs. Or get hypothermia

iloveareed · Frontside 180 Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Posts: 430 City: ATHENS

bah. ah theres water moccasins here. scary

Morphine · Backside 180 Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 1207 City: 706omg

Yeah like 5 people get bit here every year. That's why I stay in the deep water.

iloveareed · Frontside 180 Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Posts: 430 City: ATHENS

yea yea i thoguht they were in shallow water. but i wanst sure. i think we walked across one time inthe shallow part and some dude told us to be careful.

snakes are scary

TTUFAN24 · Posted: Jan 25, 2005 6:37 pm Post subject:

the urban legend continues......

we have the same stories here. i never believed them because they were always a friend of a friend.

bama · Pop Shuvit Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 119

when i lived in alabama and louisiana...it wasn't anything to see gators and snakes...but the scariest thing was where you could see the gators slide mark into the water...sooo u knew he was in there with you... Crazy Eyes

bama · Pop Shuvit Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 119

and ill swim with a gator any day...or hold a rattlesnake before get in the ocean where i know a 15 foot hammerhead is

nick · Posted: Jan 25, 2005 8:56 pm Post subject:

He's been dubbed "Hitler". He has had 6 documented attacks in the last 4 years, one fatal. An old newspaper clipping at the city pier says he was shot by a commercial fisherman multiple times with a .45 pistol and then calmly swam away Shocked

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Jan 25, 2005 9:27 pm Post subject:

ive seen a few 7 foot iguanas back here .. never seen a water snake.. gators and bullsharks are the biggests worries we got.

Dave Barousse · Faceplant Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 5

I HATE SNAKES and they are everywhere in Louisiana. We also have the same stories that someone fell in a nest and died. I'm not 100% sure about this, but I have always heard that other than a sea snake, snakes can't open their mouths under water.

One of my most freakiets snake encounters (other then when one falls out of a tree into the boat) is when a cotton mouth stood up on the water and struck at the boat. I saw this with my own eyes, so I know it is true.

Seeing snakes and gators while riding in Louisiana is very common.

thirdcoast · Pop Shuvit Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 145 City: @uSTIn

Steven M · Posted: Jan 26, 2005 8:17 pm Post subject:

theres supposed to be 6-7ft catfish in my lake. some divers went down there to check on a the newly built dam. they came up 15min later than expected. before coming up workers noticed many air bubbles rising to surface quickly.

the two divers came up with shocked faces. thet said their were catfish bigger than them and that they would for any reason NEVER EVER GET BACK IN THAT WATER AGAIN.

there have been "sightings" around the dam and crap of things suppossed to be these fish too so who knows. im just rammbling now so THE END