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Posted: 4/16/2023 12:53:57 AM EDT
First time getting “lost” in the bayou. Do I need to worry about gators?

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Link Posted: 4/16/2023 12:57:41 AM EDT
[#1]
Never get off the boat.
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 12:59:28 AM EDT
[#2]
As long as you're not in a kayak you should be fine
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 1:01:29 AM EDT
[#3]
Yeh, no where is safe. Live life paying attention to that.
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 1:01:42 AM EDT
[#4]
You don't beat this river
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 1:02:14 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 4/16/2023 1:02:52 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 4/16/2023 1:03:25 AM EDT
[#7]
Dibs on guns.
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 1:06:09 AM EDT
[#8]
Nah. Pretty sure all the invasive pythons took out the gators.
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 1:22:31 AM EDT
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Excellent point;  OP (“PBR Street Gang”) needs an M16A1.
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 1:25:48 AM EDT
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So I should get out of the kayak?

Walking seems hard.
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 1:37:00 AM EDT
[#11]
Do you specialize in sauces?
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 1:38:24 AM EDT
[#12]
FPNI
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 1:39:06 AM EDT
[#13]
You need to look out for the fucking tigers too…I just wanted to be a fucking chef man.
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 1:39:55 AM EDT
[#14]
FPNI, You need to look out for the fucking tigers too..
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 1:44:51 AM EDT
[#15]
Be careful.  Gator don't play no shit!
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 1:54:30 AM EDT
[#16]
Gators, water moccasins and if close to the coast maybe even a shark.
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 1:55:07 AM EDT
[#17]
Look, mangoes!
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 2:08:39 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 4/16/2023 2:13:48 AM EDT
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Absolutely God Damned Right
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 5:40:24 AM EDT
[#20]
Mama doesn't like her babies threatened.  And it's getting to be gator sexy time here in Florida.

Alligator attacks North Carolina kayaker
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 6:17:23 AM EDT
[#21]
Archer - Sterling Archer's three biggest fears
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 6:31:05 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 4/16/2023 7:49:26 AM EDT
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I had a friend that had a house in the Everglades in Florida. He would regularly walk through the water during the day and swore it was only a problem at night.
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 7:50:45 AM EDT
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you're gonna need a bigger boat.
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 7:52:22 AM EDT
[#25]
We kayak fish in similar places on the gulf.
Gators and wild hogs have surprised us several times. When you least expect it.
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 7:55:35 AM EDT
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Unless you’re willing to go all the way.
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 8:03:00 AM EDT
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This is pretty much truth. My wife wants to kayak the most remote area in the Southeast, the Okefenokee swamp and also down the Suwanee river. I've been in some pretty swampy, gator-infested areas in just sandals; I was more concerned about snakes and even they don't bother me as long as I see them before I step on them. Fears are a little overblown, just keep your head on a swivel, don't do stupid shit and carry a 10mm
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 8:03:54 AM EDT
[#28]
I am Florida man.  Only time a gator scared me was in Mississippi
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 8:06:49 AM EDT
[#29]
Kill it, grill deep fry it.
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 8:07:24 AM EDT
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This is pretty much truth. My wife wants to kayak the most remote area in the Southeast, the Okefenokee swamp and also down the Suwanee river. I've been in some pretty swampy, gator-infested areas in just sandals; I was more concerned about snakes and even they don't bother me as long as I see them before I step on them. Fears are a little overblown, just keep your head on a swivel, don't do stupid shit and carry a 10mm
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I had a friend that had a house in the Everglades in Florida. He would regularly walk through the water during the day and swore it was only a problem at night.

This is pretty much truth. My wife wants to kayak the most remote area in the Southeast, the Okefenokee swamp and also down the Suwanee river. I've been in some pretty swampy, gator-infested areas in just sandals; I was more concerned about snakes and even they don't bother me as long as I see them before I step on them. Fears are a little overblown, just keep your head on a swivel, don't do stupid shit and carry a 10mm



Canoe with a couple of my kids in Fl.  Got too close thumped the boat with his tail as he swam off.  

Small pets are at risk.  But yeah they don't really fuck with you.

Fresh out of high school, golf course had a par 3 with hole in a little island.  Gator would sun himself and we would try and pelt him.
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 8:09:23 AM EDT
[#31]
Yep, there are gators about.

Probably won’t be an issue though.

What pistol are you packing for the dinosaurs?
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 8:59:30 AM EDT
[#32]
You gotta be pretty methed up to survive that OP.
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 9:11:12 AM EDT
[#33]
One thing I've learned living in southeast Louisiana is places looking like that can have really big gators. Even in brackish water.
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 9:19:16 AM EDT
[#34]
Most certainly. Don't go messing with them and they will leave you alone.

I grew up hunting the Texas gulf coast marshes.
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 9:22:09 AM EDT
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In MS..
Absolutely possible. Dibs on "stuff".
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 9:24:46 AM EDT
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This is pretty much truth. My wife wants to kayak the most remote area in the Southeast, the Okefenokee swamp and also down the Suwanee river. I've been in some pretty swampy, gator-infested areas in just sandals; I was more concerned about snakes and even they don't bother me as long as I see them before I step on them. Fears are a little overblown, just keep your head on a swivel, don't do stupid shit and carry a 10mm
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Pick your time carefully to paddle in the swamp park. In the next week or two the Folkston side will be slap full of drunk rednecks in jon boats, I'll be there the first week in May .
The Suwanee river is beautiful. Some friends and I paddled it right after high school ( '90 or  '91). Go when it's cool. The mosquitoes and horse flies are a plague of Biblical proportion. And there are some absolute golly-whopper moccasins down there.
I grew up in that area and go regularly. If you need any info let me know. Be glad to help.
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 9:24:47 AM EDT
[#37]
I'd know the answer before entering the water.
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 4:04:56 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 4/16/2023 4:05:48 PM EDT
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That's a hard YES.
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 5:30:11 PM EDT
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Pick your time carefully to paddle in the swamp park. In the next week or two the Folkston side will be slap full of drunk rednecks in jon boats, I'll be there the first week in May .
The Suwanee river is beautiful. Some friends and I paddled it right after high school ( '90 or  '91). Go when it's cool. The mosquitoes and horse flies are a plague of Biblical proportion. And there are some absolute golly-whopper moccasins down there.
I grew up in that area and go regularly. If you need any info let me know. Be glad to help.
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@Knothead71, thanks for the info. My wife is from FL, so she's pretty adamant about avoiding the mosquitos! Will keep in touch...

ROCK6
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 5:31:50 PM EDT
[#41]
Pretty sure when someone's lost they don't have 5G
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 5:33:05 PM EDT
[#42]
If you can't see the bottom, and it's anywhere considered "the South," there's a gator.

Kharn
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 5:34:07 PM EDT
[#43]
Uh yeah.
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 5:34:17 PM EDT
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@Knothead71, thanks for the info. My wife is from FL, so she's pretty adamant about avoiding the mosquitos! Will keep in touch...

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@ROCK6, rodger that. It damn sure won't be her first rodeo then. Obviously I don't know her but whatever stories she tells about mosquitoes, I'll vouch for.
And if she grew up near the coast and talks about sand fleas, heed her words.
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 5:36:11 PM EDT
[#45]
Do you hear any banjos playing?
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 6:22:46 PM EDT
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How about that doc vid of the three guys that decided to take a kayak trip down a remote part of the Congo. They were "X" number of days in when a giant croc rose up and clamped down on the guys chest and that was that.
Link Posted: 4/16/2023 6:29:35 PM EDT
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Depth charges are your first line of defense.
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