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--part1_64690.5f600877.42590e5c_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In answer to a couple of queries, we stay at a small development on North Hutchinson Island between Fort Pierce and Vero Beach. North Hutchinson Island is a barrier Island between the Indian River Lagoon and the sea. Where we are the lagoon is about a mile wide with a mean depth of about 4ft except for the Intracoastal Waterway which is a fairly narrow channel of 12 ft. There are lots of islands, mostly "spoil islands" left by dredging, which are basically small tropical Islands designated for various uses such as camping, Kayaking, bird sanctuary, etc. The lagoon is home to about 350 dolphins which do not go to sea, also manatees and lots of otters who are adept at stealing shrimp from bait buckets. Adjacent to us is a huge wildlife area which is home to lots of bobcats, raccoons and marsh rabbits. Because the manatees and the dolphins are so tame there are now restrictions on human interaction. If you put a fresh water hose over the dock a manatee will come and suck the water for 10 or 15 minutes while you can scratch it's back. They have now however banned that practice, The dolphins are also tame and are individually named by the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute across the lagoon from us. Given a chance they will take every fish discarded when fishing and will stay at a boat to be hand fed. That has also been banned. We have a wide variety of waterfowl of all types but not much in the way of small birds probably because of the elaborate mosquito control practices. Peter Stow Hubbards --part1_64690.5f600877.42590e5c_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3DUS-ASCII" http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META name=3DGENERATOR content=3D"MSHTML 11.00.9600.17690"></HEAD> <BODY id=3Drole_body style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR:= #000000"=20 bottomMargin=3D7 leftMargin=3D7 rightMargin=3D7 topMargin=3D7><FONT id=3Dr= ole_document=20 color=3D#000000 size=3D2 face=3DArial> <DIV><FONT size=3D3>In answer to a couple of queries, we stay at a small= =20 development on North Hutchinson Island between Fort Pierce and Vero Beach.= North=20 Hutchinson Island is a barrier Island between the Indian River Lagoon and= the=20 sea. Where we are the lagoon is about a mile wide with a mean depth of abo= ut 4ft=20 except for the Intracoastal Waterway which is a fairly narrow channel of= 12 ft.=20 There are lots of islands, mostly "spoil islands" left by dredging, which= are=20 basically small tropical Islands designated for various uses such as= =20 camping, Kayaking, bird sanctuary, etc. The lagoon is home to about 350 do= lphins=20 which do not go to sea, also manatees and lots of otters who are adept at= =20 stealing shrimp from bait buckets. Adjacent to us is a huge wildlife area= which=20 is home to lots of bobcats, raccoons and marsh rabbits. Because the manate= es and=20 the dolphins are so tame there are now restrictions on human interaction.= If you=20 put a fresh water hose over the dock a manatee will come and suck the wate= r for=20 10 or 15 minutes while you can scratch it's back. They have now however ba= nned=20 that practice, The dolphins are also tame and are individually named by th= e=20 Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute across the lagoon from us. Given a= chance=20 they will take every fish discarded when fishing and will stay at a boat= to be=20 hand fed. That has also been banned. We have a wide variety of waterfowl= of all=20 types but not much in the way of small birds probably because of the elabo= rate=20 mosquito control practices.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D3>Peter Stow</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D3>Hubbards</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML> --part1_64690.5f600877.42590e5c_boundary--
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