The Survive! Never Say Die! Chat Thread

So I hadn't been around much the last few months mainly because I been doing a lot of side work and overtime. So the little sleep I've got was cat naps. The positive to this is I got a surprise three day trip to the mountains for me and momma. I'll be in the Ozark mountains of Arkansas if anyone might have sightseeing options or adventures things to suggest. :) I think we might check out the caves.
 
Texas_toothpick said:
So I hadn't been around much the last few months mainly because I been doing a lot of side work and overtime. So the little sleep I've got was cat naps. The positive to this is I got a surprise three day trip to the mountains for me and momma. I'll be in the Ozark mountains of Arkansas if anyone might have sightseeing options or adventures things to suggest. :) I think we might check out the caves.
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Awesome! I hope you all have a great time! Try to get some rest also.
 
Texas_toothpick said:
So I hadn't been around much the last few months mainly because I been doing a lot of side work and overtime. So the little sleep I've got was cat naps. The positive to this is I got a surprise three day trip to the mountains for me and momma. I'll be in the Ozark mountains of Arkansas if anyone might have sightseeing options or adventures things to suggest. :) I think we might check out the caves.
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If I got a 3 day get-away with the wifey, we wouldn't leave the cabin! Just make sure no more tiny toothpicks show up 10 months later!
 
Standard78 said:
Awesome! I hope you all have a great time! Try to get some rest also.
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Its pronounced 'y'all' for you city folk.

We wouldn't either Riz but its our first real vacation so I want it memorable. I been looking at bumper cars( its an ongoing battle of over who will win this), zip lines, and crazy caves. Hope to see some nice springs to stop and take a dip in. Maybe some river fishing in the parks around there.
 
That sounds like a nice getaway. My dad is from the Ozarks on the Missouri side. Coonhound central, ha. Hope you guys have a great trip and take some pictures for us :)
 
Oh we will be taking pictures but I think it'll be on disposable cameras so we don't ruin our digital camera or our phones. The cave event says you are crawling through mud and cracks in rocks. And i would hate to be that guy on the zip line.
 
Is that something you've done before Texas? I've done very little caving. Although when I was a kid we did some in Montana. I remember one cave that was really two caves, with a very tiny opening in between. If you lay down flat on your belly with your arms out in front of you, you could barely wiggle through into the other side. It was only about six or eight feet, but it was a LONG way, ha! I sure wish I'd had some of the better headlamps for that like they make nowadays.
 
I've done cave diving with scuba gear but only a couple above ground. The best one was off the coast in Florida in some brackish ocean and spring water. The cave was the spring feed. Huge catfish and only to come out to a barracuda. We put the breaks on and waited for him to leave. We also dove with the manatee and that was pretty awesome.
 
I've been scuba certified since I was 13. But I don't get that much wet time any more. I've dove in several states. Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia. Each has there pros and coins. Of course I've dove in Texas too. My father has had his for as long as I can remember. He was a rescue diver for many years. (It tends to be recovery more then rescue) my sister got hers at 13 as well. It was great family time.
 
That is really cool. I've never got to try scuba. I've snorkeled some, but I can only make about 20 feet down.
 
Its an experience I'm glad my father shared with us. It has taken me places I wouldn't have seen otherwise.

My dad has got to dive with hammerhead sharks, nurse sharks, and a few other species I don't know. He traveled to mexico almost a full decade of annual trips to final get the chance with the hammerheads. He videoed his dive partner almost getting his digits removed by a nurse shark for getting too frisky with her. He has some crazy fish and coral pictures from his ocean dives. But all that was long before digital copies.
 
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Speaking of Scuba in FL, America's oldest knife found to date in a campsite where they butchered a mastodon, predating the Clovis people by over 1,550 years!

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http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/05/underwater-discovery-reveals-14550-year-old-florida-mastodon-hunters/
 
Just got to read it. That is pretty neat. I always thought it neat to dive for artifacts. I never imagined something like that. I always thought about treasure and ship wrecks and such.
 
Glad you guys dig it! Now I'm trying to think of what mastodon marrow would have tasted like! HK in some parts in Alaska you can see tusks and other bones poking out of the river bank right at eye level from the last ice age. Once exposed to air they tend to decompose pretty rapidly though.
 
B34NS said:
Glad you guys dig it! Now I'm trying to think of what mastodon marrow would have tasted like! HK in some parts in Alaska you can see tusks and other bones poking out of the river bank right at eye level from the last ice age. Once exposed to air they tend to decompose pretty rapidly though.
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Whoa, bones and tusks jutting out around eye level?!? Isn't that dangerous?
 
Every now and then I wonder what archaeologists 2,000 years from now will find from our culture and think of us. Which brings to mind (apart from the Far Side comics...) the following questions:

1. Do you think, just maybe, those neanderthal threw that knife and mastodon bones in the ocean and said "This will really mess with their heads!"?
2. Which model of S!K knife will said archaeologists be most impressed with (and which model do you think THEY would like to see)?

Just wondering. That's all for now....
 
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