JoeyM wrote:
Aeromoto wrote:
Good lord how do you do that in this friggin Florida heat? I'm boycotting the outdoors for another 6 weeks
Wuss. It's not that bad on the river.....You're in the shade from the trees lining the bank at least half the time.
Let me know when you're done with your boycott, and I'll take you out paddling. You're only a few miles away from me.
Yes, I AM a wuss! On Saturday morning my kids convinced me to take them to Tenoroc rifle range for a day of .22 plinking. Got out there at 8 am, by 8:15 I was nursing a heat stroke, and the little monsters made me stay out there for 5 hrs.
On the paddling thing, it sounds cool, but can we wait until October? 
Fueled by Caffeine wrote:
Tubers are trash generation machines and the lowest form of life on the river.
I hope they all get syphillus and die.
Tubers on the peace river? Highly doubt it. It's a very brown murky river. Lot's of "canoers." Very peaceful and pretty though. Nice work though. I can say that some trash could be attributed to people accidentally flipping their canoes and not being able to recoup everything. It's happened to me plenty of times on the Wekiva river. It is ridiculous how lazy people are and how little they care about the environment they enjoy spending time in. Makes you wonder what their homes are like.
JoeyM
Mod Squad
8/18/13 11:10 p.m.
Aeromoto wrote:
JoeyM wrote:
Aeromoto wrote:
Good lord how do you do that in this friggin Florida heat? I'm boycotting the outdoors for another 6 weeks
Wuss. It's not that bad on the river.....You're in the shade from the trees lining the bank at least half the time.
Let me know when you're done with your boycott, and I'll take you out paddling. You're only a few miles away from me.
Yes, I AM a wuss! On Saturday morning my kids convinced me to take them to Tenoroc rifle range for a day of .22 plinking. Got out there at 8 am, by 8:15 I was nursing a heat stroke, and the little monsters made me stay out there for 5 hrs.
Nice range, but too expensive. (....unless they've lowered their fees within the last year.) If I find the time to shoot it is at Saddle Creek.
Aeromoto wrote:
On the paddling thing, it sounds cool, but can we wait until October?
That sounds fine to me. Just give me a heads up when you want to do it. I will probably need a little advanced notice.
DirtyBird222 wrote:
It is ridiculous how lazy people are and how little they care about the environment they enjoy spending time in. Makes you wonder what their homes are like.
I will admit I take better care of the environment than I do my own home. I really really -really- need to dust
Not that it makes it acceptable but: a lot of the storm drains drain to creeks which then drain to rivers. I'm guessing at least half of that trash came from the sides of highways and from neighborhoods.
Considering it is Bud Light, were the can's empty or full? Maybe it's people tasting that swill, and then throwing the cans as far from them as possible in disgust?
cwh
PowerDork
8/19/13 8:25 a.m.
The only time I have seen a fishing license check was at Black Point marina in far south Dade. Also a prime smuggling entry point, so they may well have been looking for "Probable Cause" and not really fishing licenses.
poopshovel wrote:
3.) You are the berkeleying man, dude. Nice work. Never ceases to amaze me how berkeleying stupid people are.
Yep, you're the one being the un-pig. THEY, the ones throwing their beer cans into the water, are being pigs.
Bud light drinkers are the litteringest drinkers. There is a county road that cuts through 1/2 mile of my land in northern Michigan. 19 of 20 cans along that stretch are Bud light, the other is a Pepsi or a Miller lite. On my grandfather's farm in southern michigan the ratio is similar. The bums that drink near bridges, while having a fishing pole in their possession, are also a messy lot. The canoers,kayakers and tubers that rent are also slobs. As a dedicated stream fisherman I can say that a fisherman that leaves the bridgehead is more likely to clean up than litter.
Joey, thanks for doing that. I often leave with trash that doesn't belong to me when I am on the water, too. Especially fishing line, which can be very dangerous to wildlife. What galls me about fishing line is that it is so easy to tie into a knot and stick in your pocket that it almost takes MORE effort to throw it on the ground.
