http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/ Manatee Watching Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:31:14 GMT crpadlr http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/message/579 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/message/579 For anyone who's not sure what this 'groups' page is about, please read the intro page. Manateewatchinggroup was created as a place to document our Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:45:13 GMT morgan413637 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/message/578 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/message/578 Yep....and another season begins...... I saw the same thing but from underneath the water on the first day of our first cold snap. I sat today before anyone Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:44:57 GMT MattC http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/message/577 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/message/577 It seems one or more anonymous posters on the chronicleonline.com site have it out for Steve, Tracy and myself. The rhetoric is getting pretty heated. Check Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:56:05 GMT James Barker http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/message/576 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/message/576 Nothing against ropes with buoys and sanctuaries, but molesters don't respect boundaries of any kind. The governmental agencies are the enablers of this Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:43:03 GMT crpadlr http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/message/575 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/message/575 We've had our first cold snap and manatees were spotted in Three Sisters and Idiot's Delight. Yesterday I stood on the point of the Three Sisters property Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:28:05 GMT tracy http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/message/574 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/message/574 A student is doing her thesis on 'Manatees and Tourism' and visited Crystal River a couple weeks ago. She did a kayak tour with me and a swim with tour with Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:58:44 GMT mssail5024@... http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/message/573 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/message/573 EXCELLENT...only wish you had added and accented Look Don't Touch MEANS?and? includes.........no scratching under the flipper, no belly rubs, no rubbing the Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:13:24 GMT tracy http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/message/572 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/message/572 I asked Mark Santa-Maria to film my manatee encounter this past winter to show how easy it is to enjoy the company of a manatee without harassing it. Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:21:16 GMT tracy http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/message/571 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/message/571 I was kayaking on King's Bay this morning and listening to the marine radio. Manatees were hard to find and guides were searching every nook and cranny. I Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:16:02 GMT tracy http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/message/570 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/message/570 I took a college student on a kayak tour of King's Bay yesterday. She's writing a paper on manatees and tourism. She saw a manatee for the first time as we Sat, 06 Jun 2009 10:23:21 GMT Lars Andersen http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/message/569 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/message/569 Well said, Tracy. Good job! Lars Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:16:44 GMT tracy http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/message/568 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/message/568 I, too was very disappointed at the abrupt ending to the meeting. Especially since it seemed to be going so well. Below is an e-mail I sent to those who were Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:51:23 GMT Lars Andersen http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/message/567 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/message/567 The Tallahassee moderator was equally surprised that there was also a meeting in Crystal. She seemed sincere. Probably just a case of a large agency not Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:30:08 GMT Brack Barker http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/message/566 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/message/566 When I mentioned the paddle listening session in Tally to Carol Knox the FWCC manatee biologist, as being the same date and that there were people concerned Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:26:42 GMT mssail5024@... http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/message/565 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/manateewatchinggroup/message/565 Our meeting was shortened, as to why, not sure. Many were saying how disappointed they were that they were not able to speak, as they were exiting. Might have