> Johnno, Margot and I were paddling the Bega river on a balmy Summers day > last month and amiably sharing it with a bunch of water skiers - and a blue > tongued lizard! None of us had ever seen a blue tongued lizard swimming > across a river before and this fine specimen was trying its damnedest to get > to the other side, wriggling and slithering at about 1/10th of a knot In New Jersey it's not unusual to see Woodchucks (Marmots) swimming in rivers. I had one last fall ferrying across a river with me -- quite nonchalantly. On another occasion on a rarely paddled stream I had two younkers see me from the shore, who then jumped in and swam out for a closer look. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Feb 05 2004 - 10:06:10 PST
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