Clear Kayaking in the Crystal Clear Water With Manatees 

Either that, or they're trying to see things they shouldn't see

Aysha J if you ever visit a place, visit Florida! It’s chock full of manatees!

I want to visit Florida...I LoVe MaNaTeEs!!😍

Tamra Zaghbour i went last year and it was amazing! i ended up going snorkeling with the manatee the same day lol. it was a great experience!

@@abluesfornina_ 😁

Me to! I see a lot of them bc I live in Florida. Whenever we go to places I always got a manatee souvenir

@@hotdogpepper8410 how

@@strash. you can see anything under you and it freaks you out

ayyy samurai champlooooo :))

it’s a kayak

@@feelpain284 Technically its a canoe, kayaks have a like hole that you sit inside of, if its just open its a canoe

Wut

This is just a silly joke about a manatee seeing a clear kayak so he wants to smoosh his face. Why can’t people understand it?

Pretty much manatees' reactions to everything

@saul goodman it's funny because it's stupid

@saul goodman humour is subjective

Not at all native to Florida!! Native to West Indies where they use(d) them for food.

Just wait til ya hear about seals

@@alexnutcasio936 Manatees ARE native to Florida.

You see how scarred it is? This is a result of people running over it with motorboats over and over.

@@undertyped1 Although at least half of the manatees I see have prop scars from motorboats, none of the manatees in this video have any scars from propellers. Propeller scars are very easy to distinguish from other scars obtained by rubbing up against docks, underwater structures, or other manatees that have barnacles on them. On a side note, the number of manatees that die from unseen internal injuries caused by impacts with fast moving boats and jet skis has surpassed the number of deaths from propeller strikes in the last few years. A lot of people think that because they are on a jet ski and it doesn't have a propeller that they don't have to worry about hurting a manatee as they speed around in shallow waters, but this is not true. Bottom line, whether you're in a boat or on a jet ski, people should take care to lookout for manatees and dolphins and should avoid going fast in shallow water areas because in shallow water the manatee can't dive to get out of the way.

@@agirlonrust7351 yep as long as it’s not mating season it’s pretty safe , we do see a lot of gators 🐊 and many other animals.. and they all keep their distance and mind their own business.. Mating season is a different story , the gators 🐊 get pretty feisty and have even eaten a few of our neighbors small dogs !

@@agirlonrust7351 There are tons of nice springs to swim in in Florida.

@@mjpartyof7784 Oh my goodness, your neighbours need to be better dog owners :(

@@ES11777 ya isn’t that sad.. but most people don’t have fences or anything, and one time we actually got a gator 🐊 in our personal pond and our dog went after it just because they have prey drive and wanted to tell that gator get out of my swimming pond , luckily she wasn’t hurt to bad and the gator was shot .. that’s why almost all homes in Florida have cages around their pools so that gators and other animals don’t get in the pool.

Are manatees dangerous

Exactly! Grew up with them in So. Florida and there's nothing like one of them suddenly showing up next to you when don't expect it, the adrenaline will keep you going for hours!

hahah lol 😂

well there was that one time manatees ate the guy alive ;)

@@votpavel They have never killed anyone

@@ennoid0671 lol

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Of course they would, their order is literally called “sirenians”

They're just like that and they remember people. My sister works at a museum/ rehab center for injured manatees in South FL and they always swim by and look at you a few times before they trust you enough to feed them

@@AuntJemimaCakes ooh wooow interesting! thanks

Well, they were confused for mermaids long ago.

they r fat

@@meh1681 that was really out of left field but made me laugh so hard

Funny rabbit

I see you're a comedian of culture as well?

a war criminal

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A war criminal follower I see

YAAAAAASSSS, SAVE DA PRECIOUS WATER POTATOES!!!!!!

@@draconomega what are you talking about what he is saying is true these creatures are dying due to us destroying their habitats

I remember my mom telling me that she saw a tv documentary with my grandma in the early 70's about how manatees would be extinct in under 5 years due to lack of habitat. She cried that day, and found it odd nobody was interested in helping her do something about it, so she forgot about it as she was a child. Roll on to years of 2000 plus, look at these manatees playing in the wild. With babies! Seems every generation gets the message to worry about the manatees, while the manatees are breeding and doing just fine.

@@angelkotilainen I don't think they are even classified as endangered anymore

@@idk.904 there are more manatees in Florida now than when Ponce de Leon first set foot on Florida soil the native tribes had hunted them for food for thousands of years and now there is a population boom

“You are the one for me!” (One for me! One for me!) “And from up above,” (Up above! Up above!) “You are the one I love!”

Ah a person of culture I see

Exquisite

ugh......why joe

Jooooeeeeeeeyy

Good one!

For public education purposes.... The number of annual Manatee deaths caused by unseen impact wounds from collisions with boat hulls and jet skis has passed the number of deaths caused by propeller strikes. Some people think that because their boat has a jet drive and not a propeller, or because they are on a jet ski or an air boat that they can't hurt or kill a Manatee. That is incorrect.

They don't even need to replace their boats. They just need to not plane until they're in open water.

TY for the kind words. You can rent these from See Through Adventures in St Pete if you're interested. They will take you to the same places most of these videos are taken. Be sure to check out our FB page too. :-) facebook.com/SeeThroughCanoeCompany/

See Through Canoe thank you so much for the info! I'll definitely be checking it out (:

Wait til ya hear about seals

And then Florida man pops up and says “ *a y* “

Funny that you say that, when explorers first witnessed the manatees they thought they were mermaids.

Put a wig on her and you got yourself a mermaid wife right there🤠

@@themeanestkitten aight

I didn't know that. Was it this video? What clip did they show. Thanks for letting me know. I've had at least one other video get shown on CNN and a few other national shows. I've even been fortunate enough to have a few of my kayaking/nature videos shown on National Geographic and Animal Planet. They used my "fish kicking" and "lone dolphin mud ring feeding" videos :-)

Yes this one on the manatees. How beautiful it was. Really enjoyed it.

Makes sense.

haha

She’s beautiful

Yikes! I’m so sorry! I hope you weren’t hurt badly.

God for no reason: *AQUATIC ELEPHANT*

A lot of people are under the impression that manatees get hit by boats because they are curious. However, manatees rarely approach fast moving boats & jet skis and it's fast moving boats and jet skis that injure and kill them. When I am watching manatees and a boat comes along, they will dive down and move out of the way and they won't surface again until the boat is well passed. However, sometimes boat traffic is heavy, or erratic, or people are driving erratically making it challenging just to surface for air safely. Crystal River & Weeki Wachee RIver are two of the most popular places for manatees to gather in the winters to stay warm. Some of them also stay through the summer to have their calves in the sheltered waters. Despite this, much of these areas are not "no wake" or "minimum speed" zones. Weeki Wachee River for example is a very narrow river, and not very deep, yet power boats are still allowed on the river. There is barely room in many parts of the river for a manatee to get around a power boat and since these areas are also shallow, they can't dive deep to get out of the way of the boats either. Some of the locals (the ones that care) will have someone sitting on the bow of the boat acting as a manatee lookout so they don't hit any manatees. But many boaters just don't care and plow through areas like this knowing there are manatees all over. On a side note, more manatees die each year from internal injuries caused by unseen impact wounds caused by impacts with jet skis and boats. So, just because you're on a jet ski and don't have a propeller, don't assume you can't still hurt or kill a manatee.

@@SeeThroughCanoe poor things :(

Thanks, but the channels focus is marine life. Many of our videos don't even show the canoe or any of our other clear boats.

Turns out it was just Floridaman in a manatee costume.

Manatees are all over Florida, I used to see them in my backyard , we lived right on the water in South Florida . ❤️

That kinda Rhyme's..

It’s glandular.

wow ur a real one fam 👏🏼

@Victor Creed Nope. That would be tacky.