I have only ever seen a Manatee on film but they are obviously such gentle and vulnerable creatures. I am happy to be invited to join this group and I hope to make some new friends here.

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Hi Everyone

Thank you Roxane for inviting me to the group., I look forward to meeting new friends! 

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This is a wonderful group to be in, thanks again for asking me to join. I live in central Florida and have seen these beautiful manatee swiming along many times.  It's great to know that there are people out there that are willing to stand-up for animal rights. The manatees are such gentle giants we all need to watch out for them and be their voice.

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Thanks for the invite! The manatees and dugongs are graceful living things in the waters

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Thanks for the invite!!!  I live in Jacksonville, Florida for about 14 years now.  Raised in Orlando for over 20 and guess what, I have yet to see one of these beautiful creatures.  But then again I am not much of a water person LOL.

I am disabled so I can't do much other than sign the petitions and send the letters and bombard the politicians with emails and faxes!!  I'll do what I can to help.

Peace, health and happiness to all...

^..^  Kim

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Oops guess I forgot to introduce myself.  Thanks for the invite.  I’ve been interested in manatees ever since I went to college in St Petersburg, FL, um, well, let’s just call it several years ago.  Every once in a while, one would swim down the canal near my dorm.  They always seemed so peaceful, it was terrible to see the scars on their backs from motor boat propellers. 

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Roxanne for the invite

I love mermaids n men sooooooo why not love the real thing!!! 

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Thank you for the invitation Harmonia. Hope we can make some impact.

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join Save_The_Wolves_Foundation, Whoisgod, Fukai_mori(the deepest forest), TC(the clique), DreamsOfExpiation(tangerine dream), DarkSanctuary, JR(Jack russells), Chamber(hells chamber) and get alot of green stars

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Let's get to work!

peace,

Archie

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I'm Terri, 39, from Arizona. I adopted Whiskers the Manatee.

Groups I host:

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I just wanted to say hello to everyone in this group.

By the way, in the few days that I've been a member, I've seen membership grow from 608 to 615. Way to go!

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Hello all  name Blue

What a good group the poor manatee do need are help so help if you can.

Glad to be here. 

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Hello from Naples, Italy!

Thanks for the invitation, girls!  I see you're working hard already and I have signed all petitions!  What a team!  Really, I feel that manatees should be protected!  They have a good disposition and are part of the Animal World we should take better care of.

Hugs and peace,

Giuliana aka Princess Little Rock

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Hello everyone! My name is Yvonne and I am an active Care2 member.

I live in Texas with my husband and 2 boys. I am also a stay at home mother. We tend to go to swim school, gymboree and now soccer practice. I also plan to look into the boy scouts for my 6yr old. We are in the process of buying a house and this is a very exciting time for us. I plan to incoprorate the "Green Remodeling," book into our home.

I love the outdoors, beach and any kind of nature. In our spare time we go to the movies, dance, kareoke, and play Texas hold em.

My hobbies are scrapbooking, photography and making jewelry. I also have a website of my stuff if anyone would like to check it out:

http://groups.msn.com/CustomJewelrybyYvonne

I'm glad to make a difference one click or petition at a time!

Take care and thank you for letting me be here!

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Hi everyone! 

Sorry I'm late with the introduction.  I'm Joy from FL (recently relocated from MD 2.5 yrs ago).  I'm an active Click-A-Day member & I try to keep up with reading my group boards on a semi-regular basis.  I also adopted Whiskers from the Save the Manatee group over 2 years ago (right there with you Terri from AZ!) & love going up to Blue Spring to see the manatees annually.

Thank you Roxanne for doing just a good job with keeping the rest of us posted on all the Manatee news. 

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Hi, I'm julie from the UK.  I want to help save the manatee, and am so glad to have found this group!

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Hello Everyone!!

Thanks for inviting me Roxanne! My name is Kimberly Matthiensen. Yes, I am the one who sold Spud the potato on ebay. LOL!! It was a huge & wonderful experience!! I am very sorry for not joining the group sooner, it has been a very busy couple of weeks!

I live in Hampton, Virginia (my hubby is in the Navy - active duty)but am originally from Florida. Most of my family lives there.

I love manatees and always have. I am willing to find any way to help these gently creatures.

Have a great day!

Kim

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Hello Everyone!

I am a huge manatee fan and activist.  My husband, daughter, and I go to Florida every year to try to visit the manatee, Dana, that we adopt every year.  I have done some volunteer work for Save the Manatee Club.

Here's a picture of my daughter Mia and I on one of our trips to Florida to see manatees. 

http://www.savethemanatee.org/volunteeractivities.htm

I have a soft spot for manatees because they are such gentle creatures and they can be saved if enough people take action to educate others about their plight, educate boaters about the need to slow down in areas where manatees hang out, and to prevent them from being removed from Endangered Species Act protections prematurely.

I am thrilled to find a group of people willing to help ensure that manatees will not go the way of the Dodo bird.

--Lisa Y.

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Great pic Lisa!

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Hi!  Thanks for the invite, Harmonia...  ^.^  I love manatees... I've been planning on adopting one all my life, I think I finaly might someday soon... ^.^

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Osiyo everyone!

My name is Aiyanna  and I just joined today.  I live inb Ohio with my husband and while I have never seen a live manatee, I love them dearly.

Aiyanna

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Hi,

I am new to the group also. I love manatees & shar-peis.  Perhaps because they both have cute little faces. I adopted a rescued shar-pei after we lost ours to kidney failure. www.sharpaisavers.com (sorry for the ad) I went swimming with the manatees also in Crystal River, FL. in April 2004.  It was a great time but learned afterwards that you really shouldn't swim with wild manatees-sorry manatees!   I would like to "adopt" a manatee.  So any suggestions on how to do this or which one is best with the most proceeds going to the animals welfare?  I would love to work with manatees but that would involve a major upheavel for my family & pets & that is not in the cards for now. But I do sign petitions & do what I can from WI.

Nice to meet you all,

Donna C

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Sorry, spelled that wrong...

www.sharpeisavers.com

thanks,

Donna C

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Hello, I am Rafael Ernesto from Puerto Rico. Glad to participate on this group, and hope soon I can do more than signing letters and clicking. I am remanaging my time with work

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Hi,

My name is Danielle -- I'm new to this group but NOT new to loving manatees! Actually, when I was 5 I went shopping with my mom for a birthday gift for my little sister at a "play with nature" store. Living in California, I didn't know what a manatee was but I found a stuffed animal manatee and became interested in them. I did my first research report on manatees and joined save the manatee club at age 7 with my first adopted manatee. I've been an active member (well, as active as possible) ever since then and I still pick manatees as my favorite animal BY FAR!

In addition to collecting manatee stuff (I have over 40 manatee stuffed animals alone), I love to hear stories about people's own experiences. I've been to Florida several times and had the opprotunity to swim with manatees (very carefully following all the rules using a non motorized boat) once.

Anyway, I'm excited to be a member of this group!

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Thank you do much for the invite to join this group.  My name is Marilyn and I am a Manatee Watch/Research Volunteer from Dixie County FL.  I am also a proud member of Save The Manatee Club and do all I can to support the survival of our gentle giants.

Soon wintering season will be here and I can once again take my place on the banks of the Suwannee River to watch for my manatee friends to return to the springs at Manatee Springs and Fanning Springs.  Such a thrill to be able to see them up close and in their natural habitat.

I have a website dedicated to the manatees at http://www.manateefriend.com.  Some of the links are dead and we are working to get them removed and new ones added.  Any suggestions for the website will be gladly accepted.

Thanks to the moderators for this wonderful list and I certainly look forward to making lots of new Manatee friends and learning and contributing to the information.

Marilyn in Dixie County FL

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Thanks for the web link!

All I have is my newly uploaded photos -- I think the link is http://www.care2.com/c2c/photos/view/131/173308949/Manatees/ but I could be wrong -- they're in my picture I just am still learning how to work with this website!

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Welcome to our newest members.  Thanks for joining!

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Hi all,

Thanks to Roxanne I joined this group on Care2. I am German, living in Singapore since about 7 years.

We have Dugongs here in Singapore Underwater World - but I have never seen any in their natural environment. I actively support National Geographics and am especially interested in oceans and their creatures. Am a PADI scuba diving instructor and try to contribute as such to environmental awareness.

Please let me know how I can support from Asia. Hope to meet lots of new friend and "soulmates" on this page.

Cheers, Sabine 

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http://manateewatch.org/Web_Cam.asp

Web Camera View of captive Manatees at the
Homosassa Springs Wildlife Park

Enjoy.

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Hi Everyone.. we lived for two years in Tarpon Springs Florida...I fell in love with Manatees right  away ,when I saw the first nose sticking out the water...took many many pictures from a small pier..my husband and had 8 MRRP Bins to collect fishing line sponsored by the Fish and wildlife and the Ocean conservancy..please take a look and add some pictures..i would  be so happy... Agnes

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Thank you Roxanne for inviting me to join this group.

My profile states that my pet: Manatee.  The reason: the back of my house is a manatee sanctuary. Right now, they are vacationing elsewhere...the gators are in residence.

When the Manatees return, I will have to photgraph them sunning themselves and post it on this site. It is so cool to see!

Mo M

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Danielle: about living by the manatee's home..it is very interesting. Also, particularly on Sunday afternoons, going to 'visit' with them is so calming. I do not know why.

Yesterday, a Sunday, we saw an alligator, floating on top of the water. Also interesting, but definitely not calming, like the manatees!

Mo M.

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Hi, my name is Susan, & I live in the Florida Panhandle...on the gulf of mexico.  I love manatees also!

Thanks so much for the invite Roxanne!

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Hi everyone! I also am a lover of these gentle giants. I was also originally moving to Florida, the Punta Gorda area in the summer of 2002 & there was much information around regarding the Manatees. I was surprised still at the speed w/which people would drive their motorboats. It's against teh law as far as I know but not enough enforcement.

You can check out my information about me by clicking on me.

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Thanks for this group!
Theres a lovely young lady up there named
Danielle who has her own Manatee named Dana!

Shes a friend of a friend of mine!

So I wanted (something told me) to look over there and choose an icon friends of friends, I mulled it over, because they mutate like ya know you don't know if you'll see the same one on the way back, and low & behold!
Lovely Danielle has the most breathtaking photos of a manatee I've ever seen!
I love these animals, I've dreamed about them and never forgotten those dreams.
Danielle's,  photo of a little yellow cat , was the sinker for me (something very spiritual about yellow to me) and I can say WOW an actual marine angel!
What a priviledge and a delight to be part of something so careing! I love CARE2 !!!

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Hello,

I'm Toni and I now live in Oklahoma.

I grew up in Florida and swam many times with Manatees near and in Crystal River, Fl. I have seen the damage boats and man can do.

I am proud to be a member of this group.

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Hi, I live less than a mile from Blue Springs State Park in Florida(actually got married there )

Glad to be a part of this group.

Joelle

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This is going to sound so pedestrian but it's true....The first time I ever saw a manatee was in a huge tank at the Florida Epcot Center's Living Seas Pavillion. I was so entranced by them and saddened by their plight. Now, years later , through the wonders of the Internet , I've joined the Save the Manatee Club and have gone so far as to adopt a manatee. This is Jemp, a red tide survivor :

...which reminds me....Would anyone know how to put up the banner link to adopt from that site onto your personal profile? I tried but it wouldn't go.

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Welcome Debbie & Linda!  Thanks for joining!

Debbie, I too fell in love with the manatee just by seeing one in a tank.  I was at Seaworld in FL.

Linda, Yes!  This group is still active! 

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Thanks Larry for the invite.

Living in Fl. is such a joy when we can observe these beauties. I lived 3 mi. from Manatee Springs and enjoyed sitting on the river waiting to get a glimpse. I'm hoping the laws can get more specific for their protection from motor boats. It seems there are still too  many deaths to ignore this situation.

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Hi all! I just joined the group, spent a lot of time in Florida and we must save the beautiful manatees from motorboaters!

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