Baby Lido, Cay and Oscar

So yesterday, I was getting the boat ready and 3 Manatees had parked their selves under my boat and dock. Needless to say, we did not take the boat out that day at all. These manatee were sleeping here for hours, away from the tide going out. The baby is about a month old. We are in Lido Key, so we named the baby, Lido , the mom Cay and the Dad Oscar, he was old and had barnacles. Good ole mate he was for sure. Check out the pictures. We have a lot of video too, they were snorting and breathing really loud when they come up for air, was a really cool Florida moment.

Very kind of you to not take the boat out.

cool animals! thanks for sharing ...

I think I have the only circulating cointype with a manatee in my nature collection:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/index.php?r=manatee&ct=coin&tb=y&tc=y&tn=y&tp=y&tt=y&cat=y&ru=&ca=3&no=&v=&d=&i=&a=&dg=&m=&f=&t=&w=&u=&g=&se=&c=&wi=&sw=

I remember one time we were out fishing and one got stuck on a sand bar. We were there for about 2 hours until sea world got there and took over. It was neat to get to touch it while we were pouring water on it.

Matt

Nice pictures, wonderful experience ....... thanks for sharing !!!!!