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Manatee Cam (Open Thread)

by Betty Cracker|  February 5, 20202:05 pm| 71 Comments

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If you’re stressed out by, well, everything, maybe take a moment to check out this manatee cam operated by the Save the Manatee Club in Florida:

The Save the Manatee Club was founded by former Florida Governor Bob Graham (D) and Jimmy Buffet. It operates several above- and below-water manatee cams at fresh water springs. This time of year, when there’s a chill in the air, the manatees flock to warm water springs.

I grew up on a spring-fed river that has manatees year round, but there are more in the winter, of course. The spring water is a steady 72 F, which feels like an ice bath in the summer when the air temperatures are 95 F and warm as bath water in the winter when it’s in the 60s or lower.

Anyway, I find watching the manatees (or sea cows, as the old-timers call them) pretty calming. They don’t make any sudden moves — can’t, in fact, which is why almost all except babies have boat propeller scars. They seem to sleep, socialize or nosh peacefully on aquatic weeds all day.

Florida has set aside more manatee zones for the critters over the years, which is a good thing. Boat collisions kill far fewer now than they used to when I was a kid, when you were allowed to barrel around in a power boat at top speed year-round.

The manatee zones also give them a place to get away from humans if they want to; you’re not supposed to follow them into their designated hang-outs, feed or harass them in any way. They’re friendly and curious by nature; if you slip quietly into the water and don’t splash around and make a scene, chances are they will come to you.

I’ve told y’all about the first time I took my future husband to swim with the manatees: I’d told him about them, but words didn’t prepare him adequately. He jumped into the river and snorkeled over to where I said I’d seen one surface for air.

Minutes later, his head popped out of the water, and he turned toward the boat, eyes bugging behind the mask like Wile E. Coyote after an ACME  product mishap. He practically walked on water back to the boat.

“It’s as big as a MINI-VAN,” he explained, after leaping into the boat like a great white was chomping at his heels. Manatees are not really that big, but they are impressively huge. I probably should have mentioned that! I still kid the mister about being afraid of manatees all these years later.

The only downside about sharing a river with manatees is their poop: it looks pretty much like a human turd except two feet long! All I’m saying is, if you’re in the water with manatees and see one lift its fluke, swim away!

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  1. 1.

    trollhattan

    February 5, 2020 at 2:09 pm

    “That’s not a manatee, it’s a vanatee!”

    Possible tshirt.

    That water looks so clear and inviting, no wonder it’s full of critters. Glad to know there are parts of Florida not scraped flat.

  2. 2.

    Inventor

    February 5, 2020 at 2:13 pm

    When Senator Doug Jones was Attorney General in Alabama, he re-opened the Birmingham bombing investigation.

    The KKK threatened him and his family.

    He responded on official letterhead: “…kiss my ass.”

    The man has a spine of titanium. Certifiable badass.

    A true American Statesman.

  3. 3.

    NickM

    February 5, 2020 at 2:14 pm

    Romney is going to vote to convict Trump. I’m shocked, but in a good way.

  4. 4.

    JPL

    February 5, 2020 at 2:14 pm

    My family vacationed at South Seas several years and one time my son and his cousin took a canoe out near the manatees.   To see the thrill in their eyes was worth the price of going

    Betty thanks for the memories.   They didn’t mention poop

  5. 5.

    Betty Cracker

    February 5, 2020 at 2:17 pm

    @NickM: Same! Do we know what Manchin is going to do yet?

  6. 6.

    rikyrah

    February 5, 2020 at 2:18 pm

    @NickM:

     

    Willard is running in 2024

  7. 7.

    Inventor

    February 5, 2020 at 2:18 pm

    Obligatory:

    “Oh, the huge manatee!”

  8. 8.

    MattF

    February 5, 2020 at 2:18 pm

    Also, if you’re at the zoo and see a hippo spin its tail, you’re too close.

  9. 9.

    JPL

    February 5, 2020 at 2:19 pm

    @Betty Cracker: I’m not watching but I read that Romney had tears in his eyes.   I hope that Manchin has a spine but I don’t know for sure.

    Why do they hate Pence?   After all if twenty repubs voted to convict, he’d be president tonight.

  10. 10.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    February 5, 2020 at 2:20 pm

    The Save the Manatee Club was founded by former Florida Governor Bob Graham (D) and Jimmy Buffet

    It pleases me to know this. I always liked Graham, and I saw Buffett live three or four times in the last century, pleasant memories that I won’t try to recreate. I’m gonna send them $25

    The only downside about sharing a river with manatees is their poop: it looks pretty much like a human turd except two feet long! All I’m saying is, if you’re in the water with manatees and see one lift its fluke, swim away!

    Sometimes you make me want to spend a couple of weeks in Florida to see birds and manatees and eat seafood. I guess this isn’t a deal-breaker, but I’m not getting out of the boat. Any boat.

  11. 11.

    Elizabelle

    February 5, 2020 at 2:20 pm

    Thank you, Betty.

    Had hoped to see a manatee during recent visit to Key Largo.  Lots of wind, though, and the water was roiled.  Did see a few dolphins, though, and definitely iguanas.  (Nonfrozen variety.)

    And:  got to see a mama wild hog and her five little hogs ambling along a safe distance from a road near Cape Canaveral.  They were a well behaved little crew.

    Florida is a treasure, ecologically.

  12. 12.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    February 5, 2020 at 2:21 pm

    @NickM: credit where due, I would have lost a big bet, and this is going to enrage— enraaaaage– The Beast

  13. 13.

    mrmoshpotato

    February 5, 2020 at 2:22 pm

    Down in front, swinging branch thingy.

  14. 14.

    Barbara

    February 5, 2020 at 2:23 pm

    I love visiting the spring fed rivers in Florida.  We did the Juniper Springs kayak/canoeing trip around four years ago, and it was truly breathtaking.  The only downside was getting stuck on a tree limb and having to jump out for five seconds to get free.  You are not supposed to EVER get out of the boat.  Obviously, we survived.

  15. 15.

    trollhattan

    February 5, 2020 at 2:23 pm

    @MattF:

    Our zoo was down to but a lone hippo, Jewel, and she was utterly delightful (I didn’t have any expulsion events). She loved playing with a giant, giant ball that somehow survived her bites.

  16. 16.

    JPL

    February 5, 2020 at 2:24 pm

    @Elizabelle: The ecosystem at Captiva and South Seas is amazing and you really should consider a trip.   IMO The panhandle visits are a waste.

  17. 17.

    jonas

    February 5, 2020 at 2:24 pm

    Well, looks like Romney will vote to convict. I can’t wait to see the shitstorm Trump unleashes against him, but hey, he’s not up for re-election until 2024 when….oh, yeah, I can see what he did there.

    I guess I can admire his confidence that, should Trump be reelected, that there will even be elections in 2024, or that he’ll be any more effective against Don, Jr.’s candidacy than Bill Weld has been against Trump, but whatever.

  18. 18.

    germy

    February 5, 2020 at 2:24 pm

    There’s something about sea mammals that has a calming influence on me.

  19. 19.

    MattF

    February 5, 2020 at 2:26 pm

    @jonas: Trump is not popular in Utah.

  20. 20.

    germy

    February 5, 2020 at 2:28 pm

    In the novel Moby-Dick, Herman Melville distinguishes manatees (“Lamatins”) from small whales; stating, “I am aware that down to the present time, the fish styled Lamatins and Dugongs (Pig-fish and Sow-fish of the Coffins of Nantucket) are included by many naturalists among the whales. But as these pig-fish are a noisy, contemptible set, mostly lurking in the mouths of rivers, and feeding on wet hay, and especially as they do not spout, I deny their credentials as whales; and have presented them with their passports to quit the Kingdom of Cetology.”

    This quote has sort of made me dislike Melville.

  21. 21.

    Betty Cracker

    February 5, 2020 at 2:28 pm

    @JPL: I think the Panhandle has the prettiest beaches in Florida. I’m not really a beach person, though. I prefer rivers and springs by far.

  22. 22.

    Elizabelle

    February 5, 2020 at 2:28 pm

    @JPL:   Thank you.  Have never done the Gulf Coast, and it’s past time.  Have heard all kinds of good things about Captiva.

    I really liked the Keys.  And we visited Key West for one day.  Ernest Hemingway’s house was very crowded, but I liked it very much.  Good tour.

  23. 23.

    Miss Bianca

    February 5, 2020 at 2:28 pm

    That manatee cam is very soothing, thanks, BC!

     

    And what’s all this about Romney? Man is *definitely* looking ahead. Or maybe he really does have some sort of integrity after all.

  24. 24.

    patrick Il

    February 5, 2020 at 2:30 pm

    There is an Evangelical who is  (of course) suing the NFL  because he  feels that the  SuperBowl halftime show threatens  his soul  with  eternal damnation .  I share  his sentiments.

  25. 25.

    germy

    February 5, 2020 at 2:30 pm

    This headline!
    Trump more popular in Utah than Romney, as senator weighs impeachment

  26. 26.

    psycholinguist

    February 5, 2020 at 2:31 pm

    Somebody who knows these things, how are the manatee not alligator food?  Is it just size if they can get to that point?

  27. 27.

    germy

    February 5, 2020 at 2:33 pm

    @psycholinguist:

    In relation to the threat posed by humans, predation does not present a significant threat to manatees.[35] When threatened, the manatee’s response is to dive as deeply as it can, suggesting that threats have most frequently come from land dwellers such as humans rather than from other water-dwelling creatures such as caimans or sharks.[35]

  28. 28.

    Miss Bianca

    February 5, 2020 at 2:35 pm

    @germy: Isn’t that Ishmael speaking, though? I give an author a pass when they’re putting words into the mouths of his characters.

  29. 29.

    NotMax

    February 5, 2020 at 2:35 pm

    @psycholinguist

    They taste simply terrible.

    ;)

  30. 30.

    germy

    February 5, 2020 at 2:37 pm

    @Miss Bianca:  Well then I don’t like Ishmael.

    I read Moby Dick cover to cover for the first time about ten years ago (unabridged) and enjoyed it immensely, but I didn’t remember that quote.

  31. 31.

    opiejeanne

    February 5, 2020 at 2:39 pm

    @Inventor: Probably someone has already mentioned it but we had a commenter whose nym was Odie Hugh Manatee.

  32. 32.

    Betty Cracker

    February 5, 2020 at 2:42 pm

    @psycholinguist: Manatees are very large, and they also have super-thick hides, like an elephant (they’re descended from the same species, IIRC — you can really see it in the nails on their fins). It would be hard for a gator to get its jaws around a manatee.

  33. 33.

    Miss Bianca

    February 5, 2020 at 2:43 pm

    @germy: Me, too – it’s been far too long, I need to revisit it. Ishmael is a bit of a prankster, tho’ – I wouldn’t take too many of his asides that seriously. : )

  34. 34.

    WaterGirl

    February 5, 2020 at 2:45 pm

    @opiejeanne: We still do!  He was here sometime in the past two weeks, I believe.

  35. 35.

    Jeffro

    February 5, 2020 at 2:47 pm

    I’d just like to point out that if Willard is voting to convict, that means we had a

    BIPARTISAN

    vote to convict!

    Which means no ‘impeachment lite’ or ‘fake impeachment’ or whatever for you, trumpov!

    (Also Beltway snooze media: I sure as hell better hear BIPARTISAN VOTE TO CONVICT from you lame-os from now until the end of time)

  36. 36.

    Ralphie

    February 5, 2020 at 2:48 pm

    Romney is gonna vote to convict.

  37. 37.

    Searcher

    February 5, 2020 at 2:50 pm

    @germy: I’ll wait til the vote is in to opine on whether Romney is a man of some-sort-of-principles.

  38. 38.

    A Ghost To Most

    February 5, 2020 at 2:50 pm

    Pretty cool, but not very entertaining. I prefer the elk herd that inhabits the grounds around the school where my son works. You never know what’s going to happen.

  39. 39.

    Searcher

    February 5, 2020 at 2:52 pm

    @Jeffro: That’s the point at which I expect (or rather, “demand”, in as much as a non-constituent can demand anything of a US Senator) Manchin to fall in line, although I believe by the rules he votes before Romney.

  40. 40.

    frosty

    February 5, 2020 at 2:52 pm

    @Betty Cracker:  We’ll be on our way to Florida again next week. We’re the same – we like the springs and we’re not huge beach fans. We were too late in the season a couple of years ago for Peak Manatee at Blue Springs State Park but saw a couple of them at least.
    LOVE Florida state parks!

  41. 41.

    Mnemosyne

    February 5, 2020 at 2:56 pm

    During a trip to Sea World about 20 years ago, we were part of a crowd that was standing around admiring the manatees. It was one of those tanks with the visible sides so you could see the whole (gigantic!) animal.

    One of the manatees got up close to another and someone said, “Is it breastfeeding?”

    And the guy next to us said, “Uh, that’s not a breast.” ?

    Yep, we witnessed the start of some manatee lovin’.

  42. 42.

    OzarkHillbilly

    February 5, 2020 at 2:57 pm

    Minutes later, his head popped out of the water, and he turned toward the boat, eyes bugging behind the mask like Wile E. Coyote after an ACME product mishap. He practically walked on water back to the boat.

    Everything looks bigger underwater. Once while snorkeling in the buff on the Big Creek at 1 AM my son and his friend came unexpectedly face to face with a beaver. Jesus would’ve been proud of them boys as they came flying back to the gravel bar. It was a good hour before the wife and I could stop laughing.

  43. 43.

    JPL

    February 5, 2020 at 3:00 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Same.    I haven’t been to Captiva since the island was decimated from hurricanes, but it was a magical spot.  The shells were amazing.  really nice memories though  Not to make anyone else teary eyes but that was last time my son saw his cousin since Danny had a congenital defect that no one knew about.

  44. 44.

    SenyorDave

    February 5, 2020 at 3:01 pm

    I have a man crush on Mitt Romney (just for today). I saw a video of his announcement and I don’t think you can fake that emotion.

  45. 45.

    Jay

    February 5, 2020 at 3:01 pm

    @germy:

    @Miss Bianca:

    back in the day, “gyppo” whalers would hunt seals, dugongs and other sea mammals for their fat, and would try to market/sell it as “whale oil”.

    Less risk, less effort, less capital investment, less time invested for a much lower quality product,

    so the bias Melville writes in, would have been perfectly natural.

  46. 46.

    Jeffro

    February 5, 2020 at 3:02 pm

    @Searcher: Heck if Jones can vote to convict, Manchin sure as heck better

  47. 47.

    artem1s

    February 5, 2020 at 3:02 pm

    they are impressively huge

    I had a very similar panic moment when I was manatee watching in Key Largo.  A mamma and her baby swam under the kayak I was in.  It was pretty scary.  It would have been so easy for them to turn me over and put me in the water.  Thank goodness they are so placid and calm.

  48. 48.

    Mnemosyne

    February 5, 2020 at 3:06 pm

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Beavers are pretty good-sized rodents. Here’s Filbert, from the Oregon Zoo:

    https://youtu.be/H99iNPJKK7c

  49. 49.

    NickM

    February 5, 2020 at 3:08 pm

    Romney’s speech supporting his decision was the kind of lofty, intelligent political speech that you almost never hear anymore, and certainly not from today’s Republicans, who think three-syllable words make one gay.  Well done, Sen. Romney.

  50. 50.

    WaterGirl

    February 5, 2020 at 3:09 pm

    @Mnemosyne: He lost most of his leaves!

  51. 51.

    Mnemosyne

    February 5, 2020 at 3:22 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    I think he mostly wanted the branch.

    They also used him as “Portland Fil” on 2/2 since they don’t have a groundhog. ? He picked between two treats to make his decision.

  52. 52.

    OzarkHillbilly

    February 5, 2020 at 3:22 pm

    @Mnemosyne: I had one go under my canoe on the Current river once. It was as big as a submarine.

  53. 53.

    kindness

    February 5, 2020 at 3:23 pm

    It’s illegal to feed mantees?  Damn.  What am I supposed to do with all these cabbages?

  54. 54.

    LuciaMia

    February 5, 2020 at 3:23 pm

    Looks like lots  of tasty fish there too.

  55. 55.

    Cermet

    February 5, 2020 at 3:24 pm

    Been to clear water and swam with them; super nice. Many came to me and wanted attention – I was lost what the attention was that they wanted. One youngster stayed with me until I got back into the boat,

  56. 56.

    catclub

    February 5, 2020 at 3:27 pm

    @rikyrah: well sanders is already 78. Romney is 72 so will

    be 76 in 2024.

     

    Of course both are too old, but that does not stop em from running any more.

  57. 57.

    LuciaMia

    February 5, 2020 at 3:29 pm

    @NickM: “not from today’s Republicans, who think three-syllable words make one gay.”

     

    Okay, that made me laugh for 5 straight minutes.

  58. 58.

    JPL

    February 5, 2020 at 3:31 pm

    @OzarkHillbilly: Hah   Once while canoeing we had to portage across branches and my golden jumped into the stream and was getting sucked in.   Of course being the good person that I am I sent the ex into the water to save her.    hmm can’t imagine why he’s an ex

  59. 59.

    J R in WV

    February 5, 2020 at 3:33 pm

    @A Ghost To Most:

    I prefer the elk herd that inhabits the grounds around the school where my son works. You never know what’s going to happen.

    WV DNR went to great lengths to attempt to reintroduce elk to WV starting a few years ago. Got breeding stock from out west, AZ I think, by swapping other big game species, or by purchase, I don’t recall. Installed them on a huge “reclaimed” mountain top removal job in the very SW corner of the state.

    Just the other day I read where a majority of the herd, mostly pregnant female elk, had died of some kind of brain parasite. Oops. Sad. But I must admit, I do not want a herd of elk to wander through my neck of the woods! The sorta feeble woven wire fences people use to keep whitetail deer out wouldn’t even be noticed by an elk!

  60. 60.

    WaterGirl

    February 5, 2020 at 3:37 pm

    @Mnemosyne: He’s adorable.

  61. 61.

    gwangung

    February 5, 2020 at 3:45 pm

    Approval where approval is called for. As much as Romney’s been a jackal in other instances, we should approve where he does the right thing.

    There. That wasn’t so hard, was it?

  62. 62.

    Ruckus

    February 5, 2020 at 3:49 pm

    @JPL:

    Why jump from the pan into the fire?

    His home state didn’t nickname him dense for no reason. He earned it. I bet he was chosen for that reason alone, what’s the higher risk, trump or dense? Devil you know vs the devil you know.

  63. 63.

    Elizabelle

    February 5, 2020 at 3:50 pm

    @gwangung:   jackal or jackass?  (Or Jack Mormon?)

  64. 64.

    dopey-o

    February 5, 2020 at 3:53 pm

     

     

    @jonas: mormons, having been on the receiving end of religious hatred, aren’t buying anything Drump throws at Mitt. Let the wild rumpus begin!

  65. 65.

    Ruckus

    February 5, 2020 at 4:11 pm

    @J R in WV:

    Was at the south rim of the Grand Canyon, walking through the worker housing in the middle of the park and the kids playing all looked in my general direction and quietly all walked away. I turned my head the direction they were looking and about 10-12 feet from me was a full grown elk. His shoulder was at least a foot higher than I am tall. He looked like there wasn’t much that was going to screw with him. I walked away quickly and calmly, hoping he wasn’t hungry or pissed.

  66. 66.

    J R in WV

    February 5, 2020 at 4:21 pm

    @Ruckus:

    Smart kids~! At Yellowstone we saw stapled to every standard engraved wooden signpost a laminated warning about the Bison in the park.

    The Bison are wild animals capable of bursts of speed and great violence. Please do not approach them for any reason! So far this season XX park visitors have been killed by angering Bison!

    Or words to that effect, anyway. We were on a loop path around some mudpots and boulders and such and went around a rock.

    There was a huge Bison lying across the path. Even tho we were nearly back to the parking lot, we turned right around and walked very slowly away from Mr Bison and all the way back around the path. Nothing worth even irritating a bison, they’re huge.

    There was steam coming out of the storm drains in that particular parking lot! We were there just before Memorial Day weekend, it was not yet crowded, we had a great time. 1991 IIRC

  67. 67.

    TomatoQueen

    February 5, 2020 at 4:56 pm

    Lovely manatees, the big dopey sillies. Considering the state of the water I wonder whether they’re still hanging about in warm spots in the Caloosahatchee, by the power plant. Last one I saw unfortunately was deceased, tied up to the boat ramp on the fishing side of the Sanibel Causeway, and blown up to the size of a tank. That was nearly 30 years ago and I’m amazed the creatures still exist. Also, too, my beloved panthers. But developers and Big Sugar will always do their very damnedest. If you’re at all having a hankering to explore Sanibel/Captiva, go to Ding Darling Wildlife Refuge for superb birding, Cayo Costa by boat for shells, and the Tween Waters Inn which used to be lovely and funky but looks fancied up, but allows pets and when we honeymooned there, was full of stray cats.

  68. 68.

    Betty Cracker

    February 5, 2020 at 5:18 pm

    @TomatoQueen: Excellent advice all around! I’m a very amateur birder, but I managed to spot a mangrove cuckoo at Ding Darling. People who’ve been birding for ages get so mad when I tell that story! You can walk around for years and never see one. My husband heard it first, and it flew right over us.

  69. 69.

    AM in NC

    February 5, 2020 at 5:19 pm

    Love Blue Springs! My mom lived in Winter Park for years, and we’d go to the springs occasionally when I visited.  Wekiwa Springs too. You see all kinds of people tubing down the springs – it is a wonderful cross section of America, warts and all.  Thanks for the respite from the shitshow that is our current GOP.  Tomorrow, back to doing everything I can to kick them out on their asses come November.

  70. 70.

    JustRuss

    February 5, 2020 at 5:54 pm

    I empathize with Mr. Cracker.  I was kneeling on the edge of an embankment once, watching thousands of minnows zoom by in the current, when something HUGE appeared right in front of me.  Squealed like a school girl and jumped back, it was just a manatee.  If it was a gator it could have took my head off.

  71. 71.

    Inspectrix

    February 5, 2020 at 8:51 pm

    I’ll be down in Florida in a few weeks visiting family. The morning pastime is watching the manatees swim past the dock. It’s a mindfulness exercise to train one’s eyes to scan and look for the subtle disturbances in the water. There is 1 sighting for every 5-10 times someone shouts “Manateeeeee!” What amazes me is that our Floridian hosts never seem to tire of the search. Then again, they don’t seem to tire of the ridiculously beautiful sunsets.

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