Whitey Markle's anti-airboat tune

[Anonymous]

This writer is one of our most staunch adversaries and he is a staff writer for the Orlando Sentinel.

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`Song of the Lake' Whitey Markle's anti-airboat tune
Sentinel Staff Writer

June 26, 2005

Oh, you come through the marsh or the reeds and the pads for the gators and the frogs you explore

But unlike the marsh hawk so silent and peaceful you invade with a deafening roar

You sit there and you play with your toys so fearful

It's control and it's power that you seek

You unleash your contraption on this heavenly marshland

You never see the destruction that you reap

Mister won't you shut down that awful machineAnd listen to the song of the lake?

The osprey, the blue pete, didapper, and blackbird -- it's a song only nature can make.

For two million years we've lived by the water

Without your infernal machine.

We caught the sweet fishes and hunted the marshes and the lake's murky water was clean.

So you crash through the nests of the birds in the marsh with your airboats so fearful and loud.
You scare all those critters with your engine so harsh

Your invasion should not be allowed.

Mister won't you shut down that awful machine
And listen to the song of the lake?

The osprey, the blue pete, didapper, and blackbird -- it's a song only nature can make.

It's a song only God can make.

Copyright by Richard "Whitey" Markle

 

[basketcase0302]

waterlizard,

I'll bet he's a fairy nice guy too!

Basketcase

 

[cowboy]

Perhaps he should go for an Airboat ride.
No really, I'm serious.

Many of these folks condemn a sport or activity on sight / perceptions alone. They have no real understanding of what it's all about.
Airboating will take you to the places where your able truly to hear the "songs of the marsh"

To them looking in from the outside, it just looks like a devastating rape of the environment. We all know that's not true. People sometimes see what the want too, and not what's really the truth. Sometimes it's easier for them just to demonize it at first glance, rather than to really examine an issue.

People are usually to lazy to learn enough about something, in order to make an enformed personall judgement. "Voting"

As far as disrupting wildlife, I've heard of that one before.
Back in the 30's and 40's the Aurther Marshall area was world renowned for waterfowl hunting. Many people would visit Florida to go there and Hunt, or Observe ducks. Some well meaning bird protector got it pushed through to ban airboats from that area, to reduce the distrubance to the ducks.
The end result was that the airboat trails grew shut, and all the runways that the ducks used to take flight were gone. Soon after so were the ducks.

What was that old saying about the best of intentions?

You see the same thing with the shooting sports. People who have never handled a firearm much less shot one are quick to condemn them as evil, weapons of mass destruction. They feel that guns are just too costly a freedom for society.
Until someone takes them plinking. Then alot of times they do a 180 on the issue.
Perhaps if folks like that writer from Orlando went out for some responsible airboating, he could better appreciate what our sport is all about. Nobody respects the marshes as much as do responsible airboaters.

If he went for a ride with one, he just may see that. Most any resonable person would.

I'm gonna start looking for an anti airboater to take for a ride.

It's worth a try.

Anyway, I'm done preaching. Nice post Waterlizard. Keep'em coming.

 

[jim]

Jim

 

[UncleBubba]

I just thank I may do the something Cowboy. What would it cost ya a $30 bucks in gas. That would be worth changing an anti airboaters out look on airboaters. But don't go out of your way to show them a good time. Just show them good ol fashin southern fun. Maybe thay will see its not that bad. The next best thing is, thay will have a boat with ya at next mouths run.