Local man in night-time attack by wild boars at San Luis Pass:

A.C. Adams was flounder gigging on the back side of San Luis Pass last week with his cousin. His cousin had gone to the truck to drink more beer as it was a slow night of gigging. A.C. was approximately 100 yards from shore when he heard some loud splashing coming towards him. He said it was very unnerving because it was so dark outside of the lanterns’ perimeter. All at once two large vicious hogs in approximately 16 inches of water started attacking him. He immediately lashed out with his flounder gig and started stabbing a hog. As it made a piercing scream in anger and agony, the second hog cut him in the leg with his tusk while biting him. A.C. screamed for help toward the bank at his cousin who never responded. A.C. then turned with the gig stabbing the second hog and the fight was on. One hog knocked him down to his knees and bit him on the forearm. A.C. told me, “At first I could not believe this was happening and then I thought these hogs were going to kill me.” He got back up stabbing at the hogs over and over as they were snapping at him. Finally, one hog went down and lay in the water squealing. That left him one on one with the larger hog.  The big boar would not give up and the fight lasted for two to three more minutes with Mr. Adam’s stabbing the hog twenty-five to thirty more times before it went down. He limped back to the truck and got his pistol. He woke up his drunken cousin who had passed out in the truck and they waded back out with the intention of finishing off both hogs. When they got back out there the hogs were dead. They tied ropes to the hogs and dragged them up to the bank. They got the hogs loaded into the back of the truck and stopped by the hospital where A.C. Adams received twenty-one stitches in his left leg, eight stitches in his right leg, six stitches on his forearm and a tetanus shot. Here is a picture of A.C. Adams with his two hogs that he gigged while floundering in West Bay.

Coyote and NASCAR don't mix.

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I'm sure he'll button up after the shot...

The question I have is who took the picture?  Why was he/she standing that close at that angle???  food or thought, no doubt.

Hog Hunting river road next to I-75 & U.S. 41 just south of North Port, Florida

Crocodile with a pig in its jaw

This one apparently was dining on the innards of a downed longhorn steer.  Here’s the text from the email I received.

“Seems the old longhorn steer they had got sick, he had to shoot it. Thanksgiving he was back up there and found a pig stuck in the butt-hole. He took a picture of it, the camera noise startled the pig.  He then struggled and broke the butt-hold and took off into the woods.”

Keep those cards and letters coming.

Nice.

Piglet stuck in a steers butt

Buzzard Billy’s is located on the Mighty Muddy Brazos river.  The Brazos is not so muddy this far north.  If you were to see the Brazos at say, where I-10 crosses it, the river is very muddy.  It’s orangey brown from all the silt it’s picked up through the Brazos valley upstream.

I always take with me a small laptop that I attach a portable GPS unit to to help me navigate.  It’s a Garmin unit and has served me very well over the years.  The GPS just provides telemetry data to the laptop.  You need mapping software to be able to navigate with.  Garmin has a product called nRoute.  NRoute is the software to display the map information — roads, rivers, etc.  Garmin also sells the mapping data that is used by the software.  I have MetroGuide North America.  It provides a database of retail services, places of interest and other similar locations on your map.  It comes in handy at times.  I used it to locate where the Whataburger was in Alvarado so I could get a drink earlier in the day.  We used it to find the location of Buzzard Billy’s.

When we decided to eat an early lunch in Waco I used my BlackBerry to search Google for “Waco Dining”.  Buzzard Billy’s was on top of the list.  I used nRoute for the location.  It took me to a spot downtown on the Brazos river.  This was the FORMER location.  So much for modern technology.  We followed the directions on the front of the former location to find the new location.

Buzzard Billy’s in right on the Brazos.  It is probably more accurate to say it is partially in the Brazos.  We got a table on the upper deck near the right side.  As we were waiting for our server I looked over the railing and spied a turtle.  I told my wife to take a peek.  She got up and came around the table and looked over the railing at the turtle I was looking at.  We enjoyed the moment of capturing a turtle coming up for air before dunking again to the bottom.

As my wife was returning to her seat she went to the front of the deck and looked over the railing there.  She told me to come look at the turtle she found.  Imagine my surprise when I saw the 50 to 60 turtles shown in the photograph below.

They were not going anywhere.  They were swimming against the slow current to keep position in front of the restaurant.  We pondered and concluded that they probably were there for handouts along with the ducks.

I went to the truck to get my camera so I could share this with you.