R_W_B
Senior Member
I wanted to share this video of Florida with the song Seminole Wind, by John Anderson. I love the song and I love Florida. I am about as Florida as they come. I was born in Orlando in 1950. All my Uncles, Aunts and all us cousins camped on the St. John's river every year on vacation. Back then it you didn't see many humans on the river. Now days it's kinda like Interstate 4.
My cousins and I would dive for fresh water muscles to use as bait on trot lines for turtles and catfish. My Dad and my Uncles would catch gators, shoot swamp rabbits and cut swamp cabbage to eat. We didn't have to bring much to the river back then. There was plenty to survive well on if you knew where to find it.
We used to hook a small fish to a cork line up high to the top of the water and sit on the bank waiting on the big Aligator Gars to come after it. If you aimed just right below the cork you could kill him with a 22 rifle. We've killed many of them over 6ft long. The look kinda like a huge Barrarcuda. We always figured it was better fishing to have them gone since they eat a lot of fish. When my wife and I got married in 1980 we took our honeymoon on Lake Hatchineha for a week. We fished all day and fried them at night.
Now years later I have given up fishing for some time now, just got tired of it. But I still love getting out in the woods. This state has a lot of history, I had Seminole Indian friends on my street growing up. The Seminole's were done wrong during the settling of Florida but that was a long time ago. When I saw a photo of Chief Osceola at the Old Fort at St. Augustine it made me sad, since he was imprisoned there. You could almost read a story in his eyes. The Seminoles do fairly good now with the Casinos etc. The engineers got it wrong the Okeechobee Canal the first time but yrs later they have fixed their misjudgement and the wetlands have started to return.
Anyhow I could go on and on about Florida while you get even more bored.
Hope you enjoy the song and the scenary. Wish I had time to do my own video because I could show some much bigger gators than the few in this video.
Here is the link.
YouTube - John Anderson - Seminole Wind
My cousins and I would dive for fresh water muscles to use as bait on trot lines for turtles and catfish. My Dad and my Uncles would catch gators, shoot swamp rabbits and cut swamp cabbage to eat. We didn't have to bring much to the river back then. There was plenty to survive well on if you knew where to find it.
We used to hook a small fish to a cork line up high to the top of the water and sit on the bank waiting on the big Aligator Gars to come after it. If you aimed just right below the cork you could kill him with a 22 rifle. We've killed many of them over 6ft long. The look kinda like a huge Barrarcuda. We always figured it was better fishing to have them gone since they eat a lot of fish. When my wife and I got married in 1980 we took our honeymoon on Lake Hatchineha for a week. We fished all day and fried them at night.
Now years later I have given up fishing for some time now, just got tired of it. But I still love getting out in the woods. This state has a lot of history, I had Seminole Indian friends on my street growing up. The Seminole's were done wrong during the settling of Florida but that was a long time ago. When I saw a photo of Chief Osceola at the Old Fort at St. Augustine it made me sad, since he was imprisoned there. You could almost read a story in his eyes. The Seminoles do fairly good now with the Casinos etc. The engineers got it wrong the Okeechobee Canal the first time but yrs later they have fixed their misjudgement and the wetlands have started to return.
Anyhow I could go on and on about Florida while you get even more bored.
Hope you enjoy the song and the scenary. Wish I had time to do my own video because I could show some much bigger gators than the few in this video.
Here is the link.
YouTube - John Anderson - Seminole Wind
