Just wondering what kind of wildlife you all have encountered. My group swims at Morse Reservoir in Noblesville, IN (Indianapolis) Our running list is attack swans (you have to roll over on your back and kick them in the chest to get them off of you) other assorted waterfowl, a crotch carp (one of the group members was standing in water thigh deep when a fish jumped into the air and hit him in the crotch, then bounced off and hit another group member in the chest) and this morning I swam past my new friend the lake snake. What could be next?
Lots of pelicans, which are very, very big when they fly right overhead. They are graceful when they land, though, always just missing me.
One time a young-ish harbor seal swam beside me and my friend for a while. It swam slowly so that we could keep up. I was a little worried that we would do something unintentionally to make it mad, because I don't know what makes seals mad (besides maybe poking them!), but it was very nice until we got too boring and it swam away. We have had some local incidents with sea lions biting people, but I have never gotten within biting range of a sea lion.
In a local race last summer I saw a beautiful school of small fish swimming around in the kelp, but my nearest competitors said they hadn't seen them.
I saw two sea turtles at the Waikiki Roughwater Swim last year, one while warming up before the race and one during the race as I turned in for the finish.
Once in a local lake I saw a little furry mammal swimming along with a stick. It might have been an ordinary rat, because I don't think we have muskrats here and it was too small to be a beaver.
Lots of pelicans, which are very, very big when they fly right overhead. They are graceful when they land, though, always just missing me.
One time a young-ish harbor seal swam beside me and my friend for a while. It swam slowly so that we could keep up. I was a little worried that we would do something unintentionally to make it mad, because I don't know what makes seals mad (besides maybe poking them!), but it was very nice until we got too boring and it swam away. We have had some local incidents with sea lions biting people, but I have never gotten within biting range of a sea lion.
In a local race last summer I saw a beautiful school of small fish swimming around in the kelp, but my nearest competitors said they hadn't seen them.
I saw two sea turtles at the Waikiki Roughwater Swim last year, one while warming up before the race and one during the race as I turned in for the finish.
Once in a local lake I saw a little furry mammal swimming along with a stick. It might have been an ordinary rat, because I don't think we have muskrats here and it was too small to be a beaver.
