AzScorpion
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Nope! It ain't me lol. I don't have the funds for an air boat, or the need for one. That is a DIY, one shot blow the leaves and everything else off the lawn.
I had neighbors that had 2 or 3 of them, and several swamp buggies as well. All home made. Most swamp buggies had treads with the engine 4'-5' up, and a platform another 2' above the engine.Nope! It ain't me lol. I don't have the funds for an air boat, or the need for one. That is a DIY, one shot blow the leaves and everything else off the lawn.
My parents had a house on Marco Island, FL and we went to the Everglades and went on a couple different swamp buggies rides. One ride went out to an island called monkey island and as you'd guess it was loaded with wild monkeys. As the airboat was coasting in you could see all the monkeys coming towards the shore, there were tons of them. lolI had neighbors that had 2 or 3 of them, and several swamp buggies as well. All home made. Most swamp buggies had treads with the engine 4'-5' up, and a platform another 2' above the engine.
They weren't fast, but they could easily trek through the the South Florida swamps in relative comfort. High enough to go through the bogs, above the saw grass and most bugs... and man there were a LOT of BUGS! Swarms of Mosquitos!
I was sea kayaking in Thailand once with my wife; one of those tourist day trips, where you could paddle out to James Bond Island (Scaramanga's Lair from The Man with the Golden Gun) and other similar islands.My parents had a house on Marco Island, FL and we went to the Everglades and went on a couple different swamp buggies rides. One ride went out to an island called monkey island and as you'd guess it was loaded with wild monkeys. As the airboat was coasting in you could see all the monkeys coming towards the shore, there were tons of them. lolWe stopped several feet away and then threw fruit to them which was pretty cool.
After that there was an alligator farm close by which we went to and they had some baby ones with their mouths closed by rubber bands and you could hold them and take pictures. I've got a couple pics (way before smartphones) holding one but my girlfriend at that time was having no part of that. lol
I definitely wont be telling Annie this story. lolI was sea kayaking in Thailand once with my wife; one of those tourist day trips, where you could paddle out to James Bond Island (Scaramanga's Lair from The Man with the Golden Gun) and other similar islands.
Coming up to one of them, a monkey jumps onto the kayak between us, and starts trying to get into our dry bag. So now, I'm simultaneously trying to get this little bugger away from my wife, the dry bag and, ultimately, off the boat while also trying to keep us from tipping over because she's absolutely freaking out, and trying to keep up with the rest of the group. Somehow, I was actually successful. An interesting experience that we still get to chuckle about many years later.
I stopped there in the Navy and of course we did bar hopping. My friend hot the crap smacked out of him by a monkey in the bar. One of the funniest things I ever saw. Just tell her there's lots of wild life there to appreciate, including some of the humans.I definitely wont be telling Annie this story. lol