Beautiful Manatee Bay in Homestead, Florida
MANATEE BAY
Today I’m reporting live, shipping out of Homestead, Florida. South Dade Marina. South Dade Marina heading into Manatee Bay. This is a traditionally seagrass dominated ecosystem.
Now, the reason why? Obviously there must be some tradition of manatees here. Woooh!
What’s a manatee? A manatee is a mammal. It looks like a whale, mixed with a dolphin, mixed with a turtle, mixed with an elephant, mixed with a sea elephant, mixed with a seal.
We don’t know what it is, why it is, how it is, where it is all the time…
Always we know is that they are a friendly creature of the Earth. Completely utterly harmless and their greatest predator is humankind. Florida Bay is where the Everglades go south into.
South of the Everglades is the Florida Bay. East of the Everglades is Manatee Bay.
The real and true Atlantis
So think about that and keep it moving. The manatee is kind of like that. They’re a litmus test for the health of the ocean and the bay environment. No manatees? Probably means no seagrass. No seagrass? No manatees. Imagine if you had a huge house with a giant front yard. And if in that front yard you had luscious grass which grew abundantly for thousands, hundreds of thousands, and possibly even millions of years. It had thrived through a system that it created of cooperation with all the environment and it served as a very bellwether of the health of the system of this environment…Now imagine if that front lawn, up to 95% of it disappeared. And you were left with dirt. Now you got dirt. That’s what it’s like. That’s what it’s like right now in Manatee Bay according to the scientists. So I had to go find out for myself. I had to go see what it’s really like.
What’s going on? How’s the health in the systems of the water? Can I go across to Short Key and check it out? Is there a private beach there like they say? What’s up with the mangroves? And what’s the health of them? Who are the insects and what type of natural creatures may I encounter? Are there fish? Are there sharks? Yeah. I seen them there. They go and they congregate in different locations. Lots of times on the manatee, they’ll survive being run over by boats and jet skis and whatever else. And you see the scars on their backs. And this friendly creature that eats nothing but vegetarian diet. The world is a salad bar for the manatee. A wild manatee pack? Bro, these are manatees. They’re special. They’re really cool and they’re friendly. And we love them.
Look at them. Their smile. They come up about every couple minutes for air because they breathe air. They breathe oxygen. But they can stay underwater for up to 20 minutes. And though they move very slow, they also can be quite powerful.
Luckily though, here we are (me and whoever is hearing or reading this), approached by a pod of three manatees. Three friendly manatees.
Me! They took me in. They made me their friend. I’m their pal. We’re all here under the eye of the creator.
This is Manatee Bay. Listen to me what I’m saying to you! It’s beautiful out here but it’s not going to be like this for long and you better get used to ever what comes next.
And if you can’t swim you’re gonna drown because we gotta be sharks out here if we’re gonna keep it moving in such a way as to make it through this life. Aright? I’m telling you straight up.
This is a documentary. I’m expressing my opinion through my observations and performing and creating a theory through critical and analytical thought. Everything I’m giving to you is not scientifically sound aright?
This is poetic truth.
Form your own opinion. Because that’s what’s most important. But ey. Even more important than that may be to visit it yourself. You need to come and check it out. This is Homestead, Florida. Historic Homestead. Come and check it out. It’s not dangerous even though it is. It’s not going to kill you. It’s going to make you live. And if it kills you at least you’ll die while you’re alive. Cause that’s the way it is underneath these cloudy skies where these hurricanes and these water spouts form. Where all the thunder claps and the lightning strikes with the greatest fury and the vengeance and the anger of the wild environment. The wilds of Florida.
The real land of the wetlands. The real land under the sea. The real and true Atlantis.
What kind of fish are still out here? You’re gonna find a Snapper. Mangrove Snapper. Red Drum. Black Drum. Grouper. You can find sharks. You can find a Bonnet Head shark. You can find a Hammer Head Shark. You can find a Nurse Shark. You can even find a Bull Shark. They’re aggressive. Most aggressive. Bull Shark. That’s the duality of life down here. For every point a counter point. For every punch an uppercut. For every uppercut a sweep. Don’t get swept up. Don’t get swept up in that riptide. You can find a riptide in the Everglades or in the ocean or in the bay.
So don’t get carried away.
