Alligator Festival at O'Leno State Park-Lake City Journal
History comes alive at O'Leno State Park as Seminole Indian, pioneer, and military re-enactors celebrate the history of the Lake City area. The focus is on the period between Spanish transfer to the United States up until the Civil War. This weekend's events include a battle re-enactment, living history exhibits, and crafts.
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Alligator Festival at O'leno State Park-Lake City Journal (hi res version)
History comes alive at O'Leno State Park as Seminole Indian, pioneer, and military re-enactors celebrate the history of the Lake City area. The focus is on the period between Spanish transfer to the United States up until the Civil War. This weekend's events include a battle re-enactment, living history exhibits, and crafts.
Visit us for more information at lakecityjournal.com
Highest elevation in Illinois.
Charles Mound is the highest elevation in Illinois. It's private property and to my knowledge there is only one house on it. As seen in the video, the Wisconsin state line is shown in the video for Lafayette County. Charles Mound is 1284 feet above Sea Level. The Village of Scales Mound (population 450), Illinois is about 2 miles (at the most) directly to the South.
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Boat Ride at Wakulla Springs State Park Tallahassee Florida
Are you visiting Florida soon? I highly suggest visiting the State Capitol of Tallahassee Florida! The city is absolutely beautiful and filled with Florida's natural beauty! We loved our Boat Ride at Wakulla Springs State Park. Thank you to Visit Tallahassee for hosting our family on this road trip!
Make sure to keep an eye out in the video for some gators, birds, turtles, and even a manatee! Beautiful wildlife of Florida!
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Python hunters take on Florida Everglades' snake problem
An invasion of Burmese python in the Florida Everglades is threatening the area's sprawling ecosystem. South Florida has hired 25 top hunters to capture and kill the snakes. Mark Strassmann gets a firsthand look at how the snake hunters are going high-tech.
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The Merritt Island Adventure
This video is a documentary of the lives of the homesteaders living on Merritt Island in Florida in the area that is now owned by NASA operating the Kennedy Space Center and also managed as Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. NASA used eminent domain to acquire the property in the late 1950's - 60's. Here are the stories of how people lived very primitively on the land and what happened when they were forced to move. For this film, they were brought back to the homestead, back to the very foundations where they still existed. Some early settlers are able to visit their home sites where the land is open to the public; however, some have never had access to their home site because it lies within the security area of Kennedy Space Center. Many residents are proud that their land went to support a successful space program that sent man to the moon! Although residents were forced to move, they are glad the land is protected as a National Wildlife Refuge and not developed like so much of the Florida coastline. The refuge remains pristine and very similar to how they remembered growing up there.
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The Bounty Hunters Catching Pythons In Florida (HBO)
The Everglades in Florida are plagued with dozens of invasive species, top among them is the Burmese Python. A pet sold in stores throughout the US, when it gets too big or too old for its owner it typically gets released into the wild. When this happens in Florida, where the Everglades tall grasses are identical to Southeast Asia, the animal thrives, breeding in huge numbers and eating whatever it wants thanks to a complete absence of natural predators. On the heels of a viral video showing a burmese python wrestling and killing an alligator, the director of the South Florida Water Management District launched a program to hunt snakes throughout his district.
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Stopping along a dirt road in the Florida Everglades to watch Alligators part 1
We found a big alligator along side a dirt road off of the main road - Tamiami highway. He got up and walked, but was only several feet from our Suburban at one point. This was recorded with the sepia filter.
Everglades National Park: Coot Bay
Renting a kayak at the Flamingo marina in Everglades National Par, I paddle up a stretch of water to Coot Bay, and inland lake. Along the way I see a lot of mangrove trees and also get to see a couple of alligators along the banks.
Lake Waccamaw State Park, NC
A hike on December 26, 2018 exploring the trail system of Lake Waccamaw State Park. This was my first time visiting Lake Waccamaw, the largest of the Carolina bays in southeastern North Carolina. The surface area of Lake Waccamaw is nearly 9,000 acres with over 14 miles of shoreline and a maximum width of 5.2 miles, considerably larger than the other bays in the region with open water. Most Carolina bays are fed entirely by rainfall, but Lake Waccamaw is fed by Friar Swamp on the northern shore. The Waccamaw River drains the lake's southern shore, which is also abutted by the Green Swamp. While some of the largest bays in nearby Bladen County have an acidic pH below 5.0, limestone bluffs on the northern shore of Lake Waccamaw keep the pH around 6.9. This neutral pH allows aquatic life to thrive, and thus the lake has far more biodiversity than nearby bays, including the American alligator!
The primary unit of the state park is along the southern shore featuring 8 trails, backcountry campsites, and a 375-foot pier. I began my hike at the visitors center following the Overlook Trail loop to connect with Boardwalk Trail 2, which leads to the first view of Lake Waccamaw and also meets the Lakeshore Trail, the longest trail in the park. I then followed the Lakeshore Trail west, doing an out-and-back on the New Boardwalk Trail before reaching the Boardwalk Trail and the pier. This pier provided outstanding, panoramic views of all 14 miles of shoreline. From there I continued west, passing through two of the backcountry campsites near the Pine Woods Trail junction.
Beyond this junction was a lonely out-and-back on a narrow strip of white sand between the lake and the swamp. The trail condition deteriorated quickly, with swamp/lake completely covering the trail in multiple sections. At times I sank to my knees in swamp, not too pleasant with the winter temperatures! But this section of the Lakeshore Trail was also the most beautiful area of the park. There werre many splendid views of gently rolling tea-colored waves on white sand beaches, with stunted bald cypress trees dotting the shore. Then came the most unnerving part of the hike. The last few hundred feet before the Lake Waccamaw Dam was covered in slow-moving water. When the water levels in the lake are up, apparently the Waccamaw River drains the entire area, including the trail. I cautiously proceeded through this section sticking to clear moving water over sand and it was not that bad. The boardwalk over the dam was by no means a spectacular turnaround point, but I was glad to complete the entire Lakeshore Trail. To make a mini loop I took the Pine Woods and Sand Ridge Nature Trails through the campsites and picnic area, staying high and dry in the longleaf savanna on the edge of pocosin swamp. Overall I really enjoyed Lake Waccamaw State Park, it was surprisingly beautiful. But if you decide to hike after rainfall, you'll likely be hiking through the lake and swamp, not beside it.
Hike was 10.3 miles with 130 feet elevation gain in 5 hours and 10 minutes.
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Vlog: Dwarf Cypress Boardwalk and High Bluff Coastal Trail - Tate's Hell, Florida 20150402
The Dwarf Cypress trees in Tate's Hell State Park are hundreds of years old, and yet look barely bigger than saplings. This gives them both a spooky appearance and yet creates a calming environment.
The High Bluff Overlook Trails has... ALLIGATORS!!!! Really after we dealt with the hissing alligator the rest is a bit of a blur...
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Mississippi Swamp Airboat Ride!
Take a ride through a Mississippi swamp on an airboat! Taken at the Gulf Coast Gator Ranch in Moss Point, MS.
Armadillos 05, Florida's Strange Wildlife
The Nine-Banded Armadillo, (Dasypus novemcinctus), is found in the United States, primarily in the south central states (mainly in Texas), but with a range that extends as far east as South Carolina, Florida and as far north as Nebraska. They have been consistently expanding their range in North America over the last century due to a lack of natural predators such as wolves and mountain lions, and have been found as far north as southern Illinois.
The nine-banded armadillo is a solitary and mainly nocturnal animal, which can be found during day time occasionally. It can be found in many different habitats, from dry scrubs to grassland and throughout the rain forests. Armadillos are insectivorous animals, feeding mainly on smaller invertebrates. They forage for meals by thrusting their snouts into loose soil and leaf litter and frantically digging in erratic patterns, stopping occasionally to dig up worms, grubs, beetles termites and ants which will be detected by their sensitive noses. They simply lap up the insects with their sticky tongues. Armadillos have been known to supplement their diets with small amphibians and reptiles, fungi and even carrion. Armadillos filmed in Florida by Heiko Kiera aka Ojatro in 2010.
Roseate Spoonbill
The roseate spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) (sometimes placed in its own genus Ajaja) is a gregarious wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family, Threskiornithidae. It is a resident breeder in South America mostly east of the Andes, and in coastal regions of the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, the Gulf Coast of the United States [2][3] and on central Florida's Atlantic coast[4] Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge adjoined with NASA Kennedy Space Center.
Crocodile Feeder Eaten by Crocodiles
This week, I have a video sent in from Billschannel viewer Intyas Ikhsan from Indonesia!
Intyas came across a video that claims to show a crocodile trainer attacked and killed by the crocodiles he cared for. But is this video real? Or is it fake? That’s what Intyas wants to know.
The first thing I did was look at the video 3 or 4 times to see the basic material.
On the surface it looks very authentic -- typical grainy mobile phone footage shot in the vertical position.
It shows a guy in a robe walking confidently among a dozen or so crocodiles for a few moments. He’s holding a stick or something, so I am assuming he is a trainer of some type. At one point, he even holds one of the crocodiles by the tail.
But a few moments later, he looks like he is on his way out of the croc enclosure and crosses over one of the crocs… that’s when the croc suddenly grabs him by the leg and the guy falls to the ground.
We don’t really see what happens next because somebody steps in front of the camera recording all this… When the view is clear again, the man in the black robe is gone.
Now the video goes on for another minute or two and we never see the man again. But that is what makes me suspicious about this video. It seems a little too convenient that somebody would step in front of our view just at that moment. And then a few seconds later, the dude in the robe is just gone? I don’t know about all this.. smells kinda fishy!
Leaving the video, I went over to the Worldwide database for Crocodile attacks and did an advanced search on this event. I couldn’t find any mention of it.
I then went to Snopes.com - but there was nothing there either
Nor was there anything on “Hox or fact” or “Hoax Slayer.”
I have to admit, this one had me stumped for awhile, but then it suddenly occured to me that Maybe the simple approach might be the best approach…
I ran a google news search on “trainer killed by crocodile” in three languages - and suddenly, there it was… A BBC News article from Sept 2013 with still pictures that looked like they came from the video I was researching.
But hey if you are thinking this is real just because the BBC says it’s real -- think again. Not long ago, I did a “real or fake” story about testicle eating fish that dozens of newspapers reported as true when it was really fake.
According the article, the trainer’s name was Dicko Toki and he was a crocodile feeder at the presidential palace in a west african country called the Ivory Coast .
The palace is not open to the public but the Lake where the crocs live, is a tourist attraction. At about 5 PM everyday, people pay to watch Dicko and his team feed live chickens to the waiting crocodiles.
Yeah, I know it seems kinda of gross, but according to John James who wrote the report for BBC - it is not just feeding - it’s also partly a sacrifice ritual that is deeply tied to the history of the culture.
This ethic group originally came from Ghana three centuries ago. They were under attack at the time, and to escape they needed to cross a river filled with crocodiles. The queen sacrificed her only child to the river god (as the legend goes), and because the god was pleased, they were all able to cross the river on the back crocodiles.
And that is why the presidential palace has a lake filled with cr
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