Patrick
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Jess from VA
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« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2014, 01:12:00 PM » |
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Not many. I have seen a lot of these in people's front yards, but they don't move around very much.  |
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« Last Edit: December 30, 2014, 05:13:30 AM by Jess from VA »
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Oss
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« Reply #2 on: December 29, 2014, 01:23:41 PM » |
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« Reply #3 on: December 29, 2014, 02:52:27 PM » |
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Calm sunshiny day on the Carrier look over the forward edge of the flight deck and see those flying fish. And on occasion dolphins just off the bow wave. Mother Nature sure has some beautiful inhabitants.  RIDE SAFE. |
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« Reply #4 on: December 29, 2014, 03:39:15 PM » |
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See these all the time. They come up on the bayous looking for mullet.  |
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Rams
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« Reply #5 on: December 29, 2014, 03:42:10 PM » |
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« Reply #6 on: December 29, 2014, 03:46:56 PM » |
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Same as old2soon, I've seen hundreds of the flying fish jumping out of a cruise ship bow wave. they can skip along for 100's of yards.
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f6john
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« Reply #7 on: December 29, 2014, 03:58:16 PM » |
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My grandfather raised peacocks when I was a youngster. He had as many as 30 at one time and they had free roam of the farm. He only ever had one white but it was a hen so it never had the long tail feathers. I lived a mile away and I could hear them call in the early morning hours.
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« Reply #8 on: December 29, 2014, 04:19:51 PM » |
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Same as old2soon, I've seen hundreds of the flying fish jumping out of a cruise ship bow wave. they can skip along for 100's of yards.
When out at sea in big swells I remember seeing them fly down the troughs for a LONG ways. It seemed like they were in competition with each other to see who could go the furthest. |
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« Reply #9 on: December 29, 2014, 11:25:45 PM » |
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Yah, gulf shores Alabama/Florida area has pretty neat flying fish I saw everytime 2 years ago on vacation there when I was on a charter boat for deep sea fishing as well as some very odd and pretty looking saltwater fish.
I believe there were 1000's of mullet on the Gulf Shores fishing pier down below the pier. I actually enjoyed seeing the fish being caught off the pier more so than catching a few snapper and a trigger fish on the charter boat. And yes, there are tons of dolphins to see down there as well in the bays went on a dolphin cruise and even on the charter boat, someone caught a huge dolphin on hook/line and jumped over 10 feet into the air right in front of me before they had to cut the fishing line since is illegal of course to catch dolphin. Plus, alligator alley was cool seeing huge alligators up close and breaking whole pig leg bones hearing the bones crunch, pretty cool. I sure would have liked to see what the person right next to me had on their 100lb. test line on that charter boat they were fighting whatever it was for over 25 minutes would NOT come up and took off with drag set pretty hard as well before it snapped the line finally.
Good times down there for a northerner greenhorn such as myself. I learned real quickly to NOT allow salt water from the ocean down your throat causing soreness real quick, but the views of a few babes on the beach was cool as well, even saw very small 1-2' long sharks swimming alongside us at the beach and my kid got stung by a baby jellyfish as well swimming in the ocean which made him cry and he is a pretty tough kid so am sure it hurt pretty bad.
One bad thing, it is too darn hot in June being upper 90's by 8 a.m. in the morning already. Don't care if low humidity or not, 98 is 98 too darn hot for me to live that hot day in and day out! I sort of got used to it, but didn't care for it.
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