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?
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-Fire coral in Bonaire, Caribbean; day before my 1st OW race I bumped my hand on a bouy line encrusted with it. (That stuff stings a wee bit.)
-Either a juvenile Great White or very large Bronze Whaler; Henley Beach, Gulf St. Vincent, South Australia, Feb. 14th, 2010. We were outta the water and back on the beach in about 60 secs... (Won't forget that swim anytime soon...)
-HUGE Southern bull rays everyday off Glenelg Beach, Adelaide, South Oz. You can see these giant rays on every OW swim thru the summer. en.wikipedia.org/.../Australian_bull_ray
-A dolphin came right up underneath me and scared me senseless for about 2 seconds also off Glenelg this past Jan. It circled played with us for a few mins and threw us a large live fish it has stunned somehow.
-Some type of GIGANTIC jellyfish, I never properly ID'd it, but it was 18" across, trailing long tentacles, flashing blue electricity inside and surrounded by incredibly tiny fish. We gave it a very wide berth.
-Stung by a blue bottle stinger on a 14.5k OW swim from Whitsunday Island to Hamilton Island, QLD, Oz. Saw so many stingers of all sorts on this swim I was spooked silly. It was mid-summer high season for the deadly Irukandji stingers and I was freaked. There was also a shark attack there the week prior to our swim. Awesome swim but wrong time of year to do it/bad planning all around. I won't swim off QLD in the summer months ever again.
-Fire coral in Bonaire, Caribbean; day before my 1st OW race I bumped my hand on a bouy line encrusted with it. (That stuff stings a wee bit.)
-Either a juvenile Great White or very large Bronze Whaler; Henley Beach, Gulf St. Vincent, South Australia, Feb. 14th, 2010. We were outta the water and back on the beach in about 60 secs... (Won't forget that swim anytime soon...)
-HUGE Southern bull rays everyday off Glenelg Beach, Adelaide, South Oz. You can see these giant rays on every OW swim thru the summer. en.wikipedia.org/.../Australian_bull_ray
-A dolphin came right up underneath me and scared me senseless for about 2 seconds also off Glenelg this past Jan. It circled played with us for a few mins and threw us a large live fish it has stunned somehow.
-Some type of GIGANTIC jellyfish, I never properly ID'd it, but it was 18" across, trailing long tentacles, flashing blue electricity inside and surrounded by incredibly tiny fish. We gave it a very wide berth.
-Stung by a blue bottle stinger on a 14.5k OW swim from Whitsunday Island to Hamilton Island, QLD, Oz. Saw so many stingers of all sorts on this swim I was spooked silly. It was mid-summer high season for the deadly Irukandji stingers and I was freaked. There was also a shark attack there the week prior to our swim. Awesome swim but wrong time of year to do it/bad planning all around. I won't swim off QLD in the summer months ever again.
