Recent content by bigbendmarine

Sure feel your pain, SwampCat. Think I'd have to clone myself 3 times to run 24/7 shifts to get much protection from my fruit plantings. Regularly lose the vast majority of my pears, crab apples, figs, peaches, satsumas, and muscadines to squirrels, possums, crows, hornets, and this year...

Oh, I have been! Only effect it seems to have had, though, is actually making it more emboldened as time has gone by. First time or two I yelled at it the bear ran off quickly. Next time, it ran off after a bit of delay, and the other day I mowed not far from it without it running away for 5...

Few additional captures of the sow bear and cubs, these captured at our pond dock and showing the mama bear dishing out some corporal punishment! Guessing she was trying to keep the larger cub from getting too rough with the runt... but not 100% sure. First video is in full speed... Now for...

Well... getting confirmation on something I already knew... bears REALLY LIKE TEARING 💩 UP!!! Have a sow with two young cubs bringing them to pear trees only 100 yards or so behind my house. I can shake several hundred pears to the ground and she's still determined to tear as many limbs off...

Posting a true bucket list trail camera capture today. This one shares the prehistoric sounds of a wild male alligator bellowing his mating call along the edge of a pond I share with two neighbors. With modern alligators existing much in the same form for the past 8 million years and with...

Nope. If we'd both sworn each other to secrecy guess we theoretically could have... BUT... FL law doesn't smile on handling/removal of any Indian artifacts from state waters -- 3rd degree felon charge if caught and wasn't that long ago the state ran a sting and arrested/charged more than a...

Might should share reason I spotted the dugout was the old line, "Nature abhors a straight line" hitting my brain within a second of eyeballing the two parallel sides of the dugout as we raced by it. 👍

Dugout canoe. The above pictured shared, one we found was quite a bit narrower as are many others that are discovered. Definitely not an option for many heavier/wider folks today. One particular lake in FL has had over 100 appear during droughts. Video speaks to that spot and also shows one...

If you haven't yet visited projectilepoints.net it's a good place to research / learn different points. May have been a spear point, but also could have been used as a knife or scraper. 👍 https://www.projectilepoints.net/Points/Snyders.html

Shared this few years back in my "Florida Destiny" land tour thread, but this is DEFINITELY my LARGEST historic find to date. Noticed it out of the corner of my eye as a buddy and I were in his mud motor boat flying along a nearby crystal clear spring fed river. QUICKLY got him to stop and...

Not too far from my place, Bill. Get that close again with any free time, let me know. Be happy to put you on some fish and/or tour of my place and some interesting area sights. 👍

Guessing may depend on how often the deer smell smoke/fires? Living in a rural county in Florida with no trash pick-up, I burn paper trash several times a week year-round and living close to the center of my 100+ acre property with about 60 wooded acres burn fallen limbs very regularly as well...

Run of really tough luck the past year and a half has made my shares minimal. Three hurricane hits (Idalia, Debby, and Helene), a fairly strong tornado as Florida, goes, loss of Mother-In-Law to dementia and cancer, then just 7 days later Sister-In-Law to cancer as well... then tons of cutting...

Video speaks to making lemonade when life gives you lemons. Just over a year ago Hurricane Idalia knocked down multiple trees on my place, with one tree downed along a game trail where I've had cameras placed for over a decade. I then had over 100 more trees downed by a tornado in May this...

May have been, Kdog... not sure exactly where the line went after passing by us but do know the date we got hit was May 10th. We got hit on the 3rd or 4th day of a big storm line pushing eastward from the central US, having spun lots of tornadoes earlier in Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky, and...