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re: Swimming in a Bayou. Yes or no?
Posted on 1/8/20 at 2:12 pm to _Hurricane_
Posted on 1/8/20 at 2:12 pm to _Hurricane_
I’m scared of dark water and alligators
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Posted on 1/8/20 at 2:23 pm to Fat and Happy
Had this discussion during Christmas with my dad and uncle
There was some lake/bayou in Alexandria they would go to. I asked about alligators. They said “oh yeah they were around but you more than likely scared them off, they wouldn’t come after you.” Told me how there would be “logs” in the lake people in their boats would steer clear of but then one boat would get really close and the “log” would start thrashing around and the log alligator would disappear into the depths of the lake.
Also told me one of their friends died water skiing in this lake/bayou whatever.
He was water skiing and then flopped as one does and was waiting for the boat to come back around. He was bobbing under the surface and calling for help and the calls for help got weaker and weaker. The boat finally got to him and when they pulled him up he was enveloped in a wriggling gigantic squirming hive of water moccasins. He had been bitten multiple multiple times and the weight of this mass of snakes was drowning him as well. Apparently when water moccasins get together to mate they just tangle a huge number of themselves into a ball. And by some freak accident when his waterski run ended he just ended up right on top of it. He died.
There was some lake/bayou in Alexandria they would go to. I asked about alligators. They said “oh yeah they were around but you more than likely scared them off, they wouldn’t come after you.” Told me how there would be “logs” in the lake people in their boats would steer clear of but then one boat would get really close and the “log” would start thrashing around and the log alligator would disappear into the depths of the lake.
Also told me one of their friends died water skiing in this lake/bayou whatever.
He was water skiing and then flopped as one does and was waiting for the boat to come back around. He was bobbing under the surface and calling for help and the calls for help got weaker and weaker. The boat finally got to him and when they pulled him up he was enveloped in a wriggling gigantic squirming hive of water moccasins. He had been bitten multiple multiple times and the weight of this mass of snakes was drowning him as well. Apparently when water moccasins get together to mate they just tangle a huge number of themselves into a ball. And by some freak accident when his waterski run ended he just ended up right on top of it. He died.
Posted on 1/8/20 at 2:28 pm to Boo Krewe
After you skim the turds and stuff why not . If it don’t kill ya it’ll build up your immune system
Posted on 1/8/20 at 2:50 pm to _Hurricane_
I’ve swam in D’Loutre by farmerville. And Desiard and Bartholemew
Posted on 1/8/20 at 3:16 pm to Delacroix22
quote:
Apparently when water moccasins get together to mate they just tangle a huge number of themselves into a ball. And by some freak accident when his waterski run ended he just ended up right on top of it. He died.
Ah the ole water skier in a hive of water moccasin story. Next I get bet they dove down to the bottom and saw fish bigger than a Volkswagen!
Posted on 1/8/20 at 3:20 pm to Mason Dixon Swine
quote:34 miles doesn't have the same ring to it
Ccr also thinks Louisiana is about a mile from Texarkana so what do they know
This post was edited on 1/8/20 at 3:20 pm
Posted on 1/8/20 at 3:24 pm to Delacroix22
quote:
There was some lake/bayou in Alexandria they would go to. I asked about alligators. They said “oh yeah they were around but you more than likely scared them off, they wouldn’t come after you.”
Indian Creek
Posted on 1/8/20 at 3:31 pm to LSUballs
you should hear about his cousin that ran through sprinklers with all the acid sheets in his pocket
Posted on 1/8/20 at 3:56 pm to Arthur Fleck
I used to water ski as a kid, but I've seen too many TV/News shows about creepy little things that like to crawl up buttholes and pissers. I'll pass.
Posted on 1/8/20 at 3:58 pm to _Hurricane_
We used to go swimming down in the bayous south of Lacombe when we were teenagers near the step-mom's camp. We'd take the boat out to Lake Pontchartrain to go crabbing and jump in the lake. No fear back then..
Posted on 1/8/20 at 4:17 pm to _Hurricane_
If you’re with a few people the only actual animal I’d be worried about are snapping turtles. Other than that just pollution and all the nasty crap that can be in the bayous. I’ve kayaked white perch fishing in bayous also and gators have never bothered me.
This post was edited on 1/8/20 at 4:34 pm
Posted on 1/8/20 at 4:23 pm to windshieldman
We used to swim in the 40 Arpent Canal in Lockport. If that one didn't kill us none of them will.
Posted on 1/8/20 at 4:37 pm to LSUballs
quote:
Ah the ole water skier in a hive of water moccasin story
Yup, happened in Houma in the 60s, some kids water skiing in the intracoastal at sandy beach, but dat one was REALLY fa true
Posted on 1/8/20 at 7:38 pm to _Hurricane_
Bayou Magzille & Four-Mile Bayou off of Lake Verret.
Everyone has been to T-Man’s for chips and a soda pop.
Everyone has been to T-Man’s for chips and a soda pop.
Posted on 1/8/20 at 8:13 pm to _Hurricane_
We used to do it all the time as kids in the 70s. Spent summers in Bayou Liberty. Before anyone gets any ideas about that being the good old days, I can assure all of you that the water was way much more polluted back then. If we drank any water we would usually end up puking strange colored puke.
This post was edited on 1/8/20 at 8:15 pm
Posted on 1/8/20 at 8:27 pm to _Hurricane_
Friend of mine developed an earache while traveling in the Northeast. Had to see a doctor who happened to be a Louisiana transplant. The doc looked in his ear, swabbed it, sent it to the clinic lab for analysis and called him the next day. “Last time I saw this microbe was in False River in Louisiana. Where do you live?” My friend said “New Roads”.
Posted on 1/8/20 at 9:01 pm to OweO
quote:
"down the bayou"
where i'm from, that's from Larose on... "up the bayou" is St. Charles on...
Posted on 1/8/20 at 9:07 pm to _Hurricane_
Yup.
Plus, the blood-letting from leeches helps cure a lot of illnesses...
Plus, the blood-letting from leeches helps cure a lot of illnesses...
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