What is the most exciting (legal) thing you've ever done?

[ampaholic Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close ampaholic]

For me it was 1977 and it was driving a racing car at Riverside Raceway in Ca.

175 MPH is exhilarating to be sure.

Did it several times - then blew up the cars engine and moved on.

[Ridewithme38 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Ridewithme38]

I went skydiving for my 25th birthday....yah i know, not that exciting...did i mention i'm deathly afraid of heights? I avoid most big ferris wheel's and am terrified on the sky ride that gets you around Busch Gardens

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

First thing that came to mind was watching the birth of of my son, 2nd thing was going down the original Olympic Bob Sled run at Lake Placid, Talk about a rush!

[brucecz Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close brucecz]

Driving over 130 MPH on a snowmobile. Also owned and drove stock car years ago. Para sailing at 63 years old. Have that picture posted on some ads.

Bruce

[shaggy Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close shaggy]

When I turned 40 I went whitewater rafting down the Gauley in W VA. It scared the bejeezers out of me. They open it up for 10 days only. shaggy

[ampaholic Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close ampaholic]

I went skydiving for my 25th birthday....yah i know, not that exciting...did i mention i'm deathly afraid of heights? I avoid most big ferris wheel's and am terrified on the sky ride that gets you around Busch Gardens

That's a pretty good one - I've never twisted my tail enough to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. yikes

[dcwojo Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close dcwojo]

Barrel roll in an F15 on a ride along

[gandalf252002 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close gandalf252002]

Sweet,

My friend is a pilot and keeps saying that he is going to do one of these when he takes me up. Far cry from an F15 though.

I would have to say so far it would be WWR on the Ottawa River this year.

Barrel roll in an F15 on a ride along

[Pstreet1 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Pstreet1]

Pet mother and baby whales in Scammons' Lagoon.

[dcwojo Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close dcwojo]

Pet mother and baby whales in Scammons' Lagoon.

That sounds incredible

[Ridewithme38 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Ridewithme38]

Pet mother and baby whales in Scammons' Lagoon.

I want Pet whales! Why do you keep your pet's in the Lagoon?

[ampaholic Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close ampaholic]

Pet mother and baby whales in Scammons' Lagoon.

Cool - do you know what type of whales they were?

Did you have a guide - or did you just wing it?

[JoshA Member Find all posts View Profile Close JoshA]

Went fishing and fought a yellow fin tuna for about 40mins was more than 200lbs (the tuna not me) when i got it close to the boat we couldnt get it up on deck so the captn said someone will have to jump and tie a line around the tale so we can pull from both ends, so I did the tuna was flipin and flapin all over, dont know how but i got the line around as Im climbing back to the boat I saw all my friends faces go pale and one of them grabed my hand pulled me up in the boat , I look back and there was a shark fin about 5ft from us... I guess that's mine

[Hostelling Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Hostelling]

Being one of the engineers involved with GARP (GATE). One of the best five month cruises I have experienced.

GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment (GATE)

[Pstreet1 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Pstreet1]

About Petting Whales

Scammon's Lagoon is half way to Cabo. It is where well over 90% of the grey whales on the planet were born. Mother whales, grandmother whales, and baby whales are all there starting in January. February is the height of the season. Depending on how late you go, the moms are making the babies swim against the current to the mouth of the lagoon twice a day to get them strong enough for the trip to Alaska. Sometimes the babies are so tired they get a ride on mom for the trip back to the part of the lagoon where they spend most of their time. Some mothers, for unknown reasons, are very pleased to introduce their offspring to humans and do so by swimming up to the boats and allowing themselves and their babies to be petted. Our last trip was in February of this year. We had one mother and her baby who chose to stay with us for well over 30 minutes. Those huge animals came right up beside our 12 person boat (really just a fishing boat with an outboard motor) to be petted and take a look at us. Then they would dive under the boat and come right back. They didn't even rock the boat; they could have destroyed the boat with a tail flick. They stayed and stayed, and when we left the area, they came with us most of the way back to the dock.

THE way to do it is to spend the night in Guerro Negro, and then the next day drive out to the Mexican national park and go out in a panga with a driver. It is an incredible experience. If you hire some of the commercial tours, it isn't the same at all. You'll still see whales, but the commercial tours aren't allowed into the part of the lagoon where the mothers and babies hang out. There's a part of the lagoon where the pangas can't go, and the whales know--they gently push any boat back out if it enters their "private" area.

I was lucky enough to meet, on line, the woman who wrote the regulations that protect the whales at Scammon's Lagoon, and our first trip there was with her. We, of course, learned things about the whales we would never have known because we were with her, but this February we were with just another couple, and the experience we had was truly one to remember a life time.

If anyone wants to go, I'll be glad to provide recomendations and further information.