I agree Lex, I've experienced my share of undertows and rip tides. Rip tides are
especially dangerous, one second everything's calm the next your being suck out
to sea. Very weird and frightening sensations.
Lex I like fishing too, but your on your own bud. Slithering, fanged
critters...no,no,no. I see 'em - I avoid 'em.
An XA2 and a flashlight? Texas water moccasins must be more good-natured than
the one's we have in Alabama. Ours tend to be temperamental and aggressive, they
require a long zuiko lens [OM content] with the fifty year reach like those used
to photograph bears. <gg>
-Charles Packard
Birmingham AL USA
> Lex wrote:
>
> The greatest danger swimming on the Gulf side is drowning. Folks really
> need to choose carefully where to swim or snorkel. There are places with
> sharp drop-offs and strong undertow. When I was a kid I loved swimming in
> places like that along the Atlantic Coast, but I sure wouldn't let my kids
> or grandkids have *that* kinda fun.
>
> BTW, as a teenager I once caught a sea snake in the Gulf off the Texas
> coast. That completed my childhood dream to see every poisonous snake
> indigenous to North America in person. For some reason I've seen most of
> 'em while fishing - coral snakes in Central Florida, moccasins in Texas
> (just about every doggone time I go fishing). I sometimes carry my XA2 and
> a flashlight with me to shoot moccasins (OM content). I prolly oughtta
> carry a gun instead.
>
> My son-in-law just returned from a trip to Destin and said the water is so
> clear he managed to see just about every native critter except the manatee.
>
> Lex
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