When I was 12 horse stood on my foot. 16 thrown from horse 'cause of snake. 23 rode bareback to impress female. Could hardly walk next day cause my jewels were killing me. I HATE horses! Camping at Oconi St. park walking to tent in the dark and encounter momma boar with two youngins in tow. I froze as she gave me the eye from aboot 15 yards away. Looked for tree to climb if she charged. Thankfully she did not.
It went flat yesterday so I snorkeled the PB Inlet on the incoming high tide. Beautiful water, 100 foot vis. I swam out along the north jetty, and when I turned the corner and entered the mouth of the inlet, just inside a few yards, there was a very large thick moray eel, a deep green one, maybe a foot of him sticking out from his lair in the rocks and he was picking off little fishies as they swam by. The current was rushing in, but I wanted to get a better view, they rarely come out during the day. So I swam back, and it gave me this evil look, and I immediately turned tail and took off with the tide.
So many!!! Once I was walking home from fishing on a dirt road with woods and corn fields surrounding it. I heard this High pitched kind of meowing sound so I squatted down and listened in silence. Eventually I saw a fauns head pop up in a patch of grass under a mulberry tree. So I started doing doe calls. The effing thing walked right out to me abd started trying to nurse on me. I picked it up and took it home. Bottle fed it etc. I wanted to keep it but my parents wouldn’t let me so I took it back to where I found it. Luckily deer don’t rely on smell fur their faun and it was seen with its mom a few times after. But I’ve seen plenty of bear in the mountains and heard a few bobcats/mountain lions while backpacking and sleeping in hay fields on buddies farms. I ran into a turkey in the streets of Boston once.
in my early twenties, hungover on back deck of parents smoking a butt in the morning daylight, I saw a large fisher cat walk by me about 10' away. i never knew they existed or and was very confused; only to find out they're very aggressive animals. ive seen many coywolves around southeastern MA, one this past weekend in fact. they are hybrid coyotes/wolves. was sitting on my board waiting for sets and saw a whale blow its spout, seals pop up 15' away from me, Cape Cod.
might have been extremely poisonous. i saw one snorkeling in Caribbean and did some research...general rule of thumb is you dont want to mess with sea snakes.
Moss landing California. . .told to exit the water and that is was very sharky by cousin. Kid was eaten next week at same spot. . .I think this was around 2009
I'm a little embarrassed of this one but its funny. Surfing this morning. Big swell and gloomy out. Waters dark and murky. I'm sitting out back waiting for a set when i realize some sea grass on my board. Just one strand. So i grab it and throw it off. As I'm doing so i see something rising from the depths of the murky brown water straight at me. Nothing huge but big enough to give me a quick spook. Turns out it was more sea grass, but like a whole bundle, floating up. Scared the hell out of me. I legitimately thought something was be nibbling on my foot for a second there.
My favorite mermaid scene Pretty sure I would have been the first to follow the mermaids to my demise
