Is it strange how hard I've taken this news? I guess it hurts to see someone who really, truly, fantastically loved life in an all-out- live-absolutely-every-moment kind of way taken away in such a shocking sort of way.Anyone who can make me love a crocodile must be a truly special, kind of magic person...bye, Steve. Crikey, you were fun to watch.
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I feel badly for his family. I know that he was an educator and an animal lover, but I feel as though he put himself at risk far too often. Everyone is saying that he died doing what he loved, but I don't think that will help to console his family. It's just so sad, he was so young.
He raelly was so much fun to watch.
My Hubby used to have a gator. Actually, I think that it was a caymen. The police took him away and he now lives at African Lion Safari. True story...
It is a shocking thing to happen.
I must admit I have only vaguely heard of him. I must be one of the few people that didn't see any of his programmes.
life~he did take a lot of chances but if you ever heard him speak about why he took those chances, well, crikey, he wanted the world to take notice of what we're doing to nature... in all honesty, I will walk up to just about any creature out there, too, without a camera on me...it's a drive to see every gift on earth and to recognize them all, and I have to say, that the barb of a stingray piercing his ribcage and entering his heart seems like such a fluke, that there just doesn't seem any denying that it really was his time to go...if it happened wrestling a croc, I might agree it was just bound to happen eventually, if he kept playing with crocs. I grieve for his family, as well, to have to suffer his death in the media spotlight...
todemesne~he was brilliantly enthusiastic, contagious...like a five year old catching garter snakes in the back garden, or a two year old collecting potato bugs...
It was always going to happen...
Nice tribute to Steve, you are right he was brilliantly enthusiastic, contagious.
i've heard many tall tales about his death in the past. eaten by a crocodile,, bitten by snake... i've been waiting for it to come out about this being a hoax as well, but i guess it's not....
it is sad, maybe not surprising, but sad.
I never really liked him. He got on my nerves with the poking, proding and pissing off mother nature. It's too bad that he died young but ... you did tempt fate...
Man, this is the second post I've seen on Steve. I hadn't heard about this yet!! I spent the weekend (plus a couple days) in that far away land of Montana which, apparantly, doesn't get any news what-so-ever.
So sad, he will be missed.
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