Airboat Tour Clarifies Water Problems

[rick]

Glades students, Sanibel officials share worry

By Joan D. LaGuardia
Originally posted on January 10, 2006

MOORE HAVEN � Thirty-eight teenagers and an airboat ride through the marshes of Lake Okeechobee early Monday united opponents from Sanibel and Glades County who are debating how to handle the lake's water level and quality.

As they sped along a scary-thin ribbon of shallow water through tall grass and cattails, strangers discovered they had something valuable in common: a love of Florida's waterways and....

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[Airboatcapt2]

Thanks Rick I enjoyed reading the article.

 

[Rich Andrews]

maybe a bunch of kids can get something done. The grown ups can't.

 

[Tim Bryson]

Rick, here in Nebraska we don't get to see those stories, if it were not for you guys putting them on this site.

I will try my best to get your website in the Nebraska Airboat Ass. news letter.

People need to be aware of these types of stories.

Not just airboaters but also people that are interested in the water and land.

With passengers that ride on my boat we try to get there web site, one thing we are going to try and do this year is everybody that rides on Bryson's Airboat Tours when we send them thank you emails we are going to include your web site to try and get them more envolved in airboating issues.

Thank you again for displaying these articles.

Tim Bryson
Bryson's Airboat Tour
Fremont, Ne.

 

[SwampMatt]

when we send them thank you emails we are going to include your web site to try and get them more envolved in airboating issues.

That's a BRILLIANT idea. Possibly, a direct link to the "Issues" forum?... and let them explore the rest of the site from there.

It'd be really cool if we (with the help of other clubs and/or the FAA) could put together a "position paper" that addresses a lot of the issues we as airboaters are up against. Our goals as a sport (or recreational activity or whatever you want to call it) would be good there too. A little touting some stuff about red-blooded Americans (& Canadians), history, and the general airboater's self sufficiency & ingenuity would make a nice "intro" to someone who knows nothing about airboaters - except what they hear from bunny huggers.

Just a thought.

matt.

 

[jdotson]

They joined the noisy, aquatic caravan at the invitation of Moore Haven High School students in Crystal Drake's American government class.

I see the reporter just couldn't resist using the word "noisy" :violent1:
I think it would read better with that word left out!

 

[Tim Bryson]

I have a meeting with the person that does the web site for the Nebraska Airboat Ass. tomorrow.

I agree I think every airboater needs to know about this web site and people that are not airboater's also need to know about the issues that concern the water ways.

We are only a 3 year old company of doing tours in Nebraska, but one of our goals this year is to educate the people that are riding on our boats about the water ways and the challenges that we face.

If get to a point where we cannot run the boats on the water ways the average person will not be able to enjoy what nature has to provide to us.

Tim Bryson
Bryson's Airboat Tours
Fremont, NE

 

[basketcase0302]

jdotson,

Agreed on the "noisy aquatic caravan" being inappropriate verbage!

I had the "Basketboat" on the Caloosahatchee a few months ago. The green algae actoss the top of the water,(byproduct of lake discharge) was real bad. Just shoot me if I'd fall in, it'd be a quicker death!

Basketcase

oops! forgot my manners! Thank you Rick!

 

[jdotson]

I may be on the big lake this weekend. I haven't been since early summer and have only been there twice launching out of Moore Haven. I flew over in a helicopter doing damage assessments on powerlines after Wilma and the northwest corner around Lakeport looked like there were a lot of trails. I've been wanting to airboat out there ever since.