Great story Gil, you had me laughing pretty hard when you scared ol' Ray at the table. Good times lol.
When we where down there last year Ray said they were doing a "controlled burn" (it's in the Yankee Dictionary). We pulled in to the camp and we see some smoke on the left side of the road as we drove into camp.
No big deal. In to camp we go get thing situated in camp come back out to get the run down of the place and see this.
Pic was taken from the camp.
Now Ray was like "aint no big deal it will die down. Hey come over here and sign this waiver". Suckered this yankee right into that signature.
Ray now proceeds to tell us of those mean alligators and bugs. How bad that swamp is and such. We musta all been mesmerized being our first time there because when we looked back at the fire it looked like this. It was moving closer and not wasting time.
Well now the owner showed up talked to ray a little and decided that a back burn was needed. That killed the fire pretty much and after that we all headed to bed for the night. I was in the room with the two bunk beds (low bed farthest from the door). I woke up refreshed and ready to hunt the next day. Went to put on my hat and found my head hurting with a huge egg on top. Scratching my head I said something about bumping my head in the night. My bunk mate that was directly across from me said
"you don't remember getting up last night"? With a puzzled look on his face.
"No what happened" I said.
He then told me that at some point during the night I shot out of bed like there were hot coals in in my sleeping bag and slammed my head on the top bunk. He said he thought I damn near knocked myself out I hit it so hard. Ran to the door and stood there. Turned around like nothing happened and went back to bed and never uttered a word.
The only thing I could figure was at some point I musta been reliving those big stories about the big bad bugs and alligators that were going to be getting me, with along with that fire burning outside the camp. I had a good laugh at my own expense. So did the other guys I bet!
I secretly think that Ray has cameras all over that place down there and is making some great bloopers movie at the expense of us "Yankees". There sure are some good stories from this place.
Topic: Hog Heaven March 14-17th 2013 (Read 407 times)
