Im lost without the PW thread!!!!

[dingleberry]

new home - pics from last night

[dingleberry]

Nice morning today on the lake. Light winds. Had a few friends out with us and got in some skiing and boarding runs. And tubing for the kiddos.

Short day on the water because wife had to work this afternoon. Sooo nice not to have to haul the boat, launch at the ramp, retrieve, haul back and park it.

Gonna hit the water again tomorrow. Anyone want to join us?

[ajholt7]

Looks great Dingle

[dingleberry]

Get this - probably the most bizzare thing I've had happen on the lake.

My son Riley decided to try to wakeboard. He tried to get up a couple times, and as we circled around to bring him the rope again, we see a pelican fly down and land in the water only about 10 feet away from him (behind him where Riley couldn't see it). He was on his belly, working on flipping the board over as we yelled to get his attention, thinking that it was really cool with the pelican that close to him. He flips the board over and looks up to see the pelican about 5 feet away, swimming right toward him. Riley starts to scream and splash. We are all laughing, telling him that it won't hurt him and he should calm down.

So what happens next? The damn pelican starts to attack his wakeboard! It is pecking and biting and poking at the board with his beak. Of course, Riley starts to totally freak out then (a little understandably now). So we start yelling at the bird, backing the boat up to get closer, and throwing things at it to get it to stop attacking Riley's board.

A water bottle finally bonks the pelican and it stops. Then it reaches over and swallows the water bottle into its pouch. After we get Riley into the boat, we start chasing the pelican around the water, shooting at it with water squirters to hopefully get it to drop the bottle so it won't choke and die. It would scoot out of the way or fly a little way, and we would motor over and do it again. After about five minutes, it finally drops the bottle from its pouch and flies away.

Riley was traumatized for a couple hours, but at least now he is beginning to laugh about the whole ridiculous thing.

[dingleberry]

Unfortunately, in all the commotion, no one thought to take any pictures.

[dingleberry]

Looks great Dingle

Thanks. We love it so far.

[ajholt7]

Dumb *** pelican

[dingleberry]

Dumb *** pelican

got that right

something was seriously wrong with that bird...why on earth would it attack a wakeboard that was attached to a person?

[chpthril]

Get this - probably the most bizzare thing I've had happen on the lake.

My son Riley decided to try to wakeboard. He tried to get up a couple times, and as we circled around to bring him the rope again, we see a pelican fly down and land in the water only about 10 feet away from him (behind him where Riley couldn't see it). He was on his belly, working on flipping the board over as we yelled to get his attention, thinking that it was really cool with the pelican that close to him. He flips the board over and looks up to see the pelican about 5 feet away, swimming right toward him. Riley starts to scream and splash. We are all laughing, telling him that it won't hurt him and he should calm down.

So what happens next? The damn pelican starts to attack his wakeboard! It is pecking and biting and poking at the board with his beak. Of course, Riley starts to totally freak out then (a little understandably now). So we start yelling at the bird, backing the boat up to get closer, and throwing things at it to get it to stop attacking Riley's board.

A water bottle finally bonks the pelican and it stops. Then it reaches over and swallows the water bottle into its pouch. After we get Riley into the boat, we start chasing the pelican around the water, shooting at it with water squirters to hopefully get it to drop the bottle so it won't choke and die. It would scoot out of the way or fly a little way, and we would motor over and do it again. After about five minutes, it finally drops the bottle from its pouch and flies away.

Riley was traumatized for a couple hours, but at least now he is beginning to laugh about the whole ridiculous thing.

Poor kid, but that is absolutely hilarious

[ajholt7]

Can pelicans get rabies?

[dingleberry]

Can pelicans get rabies?

I dunno

[dingleberry]

[ajholt7]

Probably was just hopped up on drugs

[dingleberry]

it was too funny to not share with all the non-hoes

[dingleberry]

I need some caffeine