Re: [Killietalk] Hornwort in Sarasota Springs, Death Valley

["Joe Scanlan" <drkillinut at charter_net>]

A bite by one of those large water beetles is something no one ever forgets! 
Joe in Al.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <lehmann at jlab_org>
To: <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 4:58 PM
Subject: [Killietalk] Hornwort in Sarasota Springs, Death Valley


>
>
>  Hi Fellow Killinuts,
>
>   It might interest you to know that as a boy
>    of ten years old in 1960, I dove in Sarasota
>    Springs and actually caught and took home
>    some of the pupfish to put in my 20 gallon
>    community tank of guppies and catfish. I had
>    a hard time understanding why my baby guppies
>    started disappearing!
>
>    My father was a mining engineer and was thinking
>    about opening a mine some miles away. At the time
>    there were no signs preventing anyone from doing
>    this! We did not know what kind of fish we were
>    catching, but they sure were pretty.
>
>    I swam in the spring upwelling, a pool about 20
>    feet wide and about ten feet deep. It had hornwort
>    growing in it at the time (along with a large water
>    bug or beetle that bit me!)
>
>                 Regards,
>
>              Monty Lehmann
>
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