Myakka Expedition

These are the facts...they are indisputable at this point having witnessed these events myself.  We were not in this park more than two hours and we found our first track, right on the side of a main trail. Within an hour of finding the track and following some simple common sense theory, we encountered the skunk ape and my son, Christopher, the non-believer, saw it and became a believer.

 Theory used:  "Find their prey."

1. "The lion never strays to far from the Gazzel"
"My refrigerator is in my house." 

2."They don't like to be out in the open, but will choose a vantage point that gives both safety from us and maintains opportunistic advantage."
 You can literally walk within 10 feet of these things and never know it.
We were within feet of it, could sense it's presence and it grunted. my son heard it as he was closer, we zeroed in on the approximate area and charged in.

3. Flush it out.
A game of cat and mouse that lasted approx. 45 minutes began and ended with a sighting.


Click on the link below or
Go to You-tube, Put my name ( Mark Zaskey ) in the search field and watch all of this unfold.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=94LDeCPFeJg