A Manatee surfaced under my kayak this morning

[aphex]

So im out at Fort Desoto camping this weekend with some friends. We had been out the day before Kayak fishing most of the day and ran into a handful of manatees and dolphins. The dolphins usually avoid coming too close, but the manatees love to come up right next to the kayak and sniff out our bait buckets.

Anyway, so this morning were out fishing again for one last time before packing it up and as we turn to head in a huge ass manatee surfaced right below my kayak, then proceeded to freak out because it didn't expect me there. I'm not exactly sure what happened, but it seemed like it immediately dove back down and swatted its tail to get some moderate speed (they are still incredibly slow). So not only did i get knocked sideways from it surfacing below, but then it swatted its tail right at my kayak knocking me back the other way and almost tipping me over, sending a plume of water a good 10-15 feet in the air followed by some nice rapids left behind. Amazingly I stayed upright, albeit a bit freaked out.

Sea cows are cute, but man they sure can scare the crap out of you sometimes.

 

[MikeMike]

atleast you didnt have a knife in your hand and cut your finger off.

 

[Demo24]

 

[Gigantopithecus]

a handful of manatees and dolphins

Aren't manatees and dolphins usually much, much larger?

 

[sdifox]

You are so lucky you survived. Those ain't manatees! Them be great whites!

 

[coxmaster]

Fort Desoto is really nice! I loved going there

 

[FelixDeCat]

Too bad you cant eat them. It might be interesting to try sea cow patties.

 

[Newbian]

Only one way to repay it:

 

[coldmeat]

pics or it didn't happen

 

[dfuze]

atleast you didnt have a knife in your hand and cut your finger off.

What's worse, you saying that or me still laughing :whiste: