Croc Hunter

I live in a world that Steve Irwin doesn't live in anymore. I don't really know how to feel about that. I watched the Croc Hunter with my ex-husband in a horrible little hotel room turned apartment right before we got married. Watching the Croc Hunter was something that brought us closer and helped us turn into the people that we are today.
I never believed that nasty animals needed to be protected. Animals like crocodiles that are keystone species and can survive for a hundred years in conditions that would put humans in the ground in 30 are predators. They kill sweet little mammals that have their own babies to feed... I never liked them much. Why would they need to be protected, they can certainly eat me alive so why should I do anything to help them? Living in Florida and growing up on the backwaters of the St. Johns River did not teach me anything but fear for large and even small aligators, not to mention the estruary crocodiles that I would see signs for when passing the Everglades and into the Florida Keys. Signs saying stay away and don't swim here...
Why on earth would I do anything to help a predator?
After watching Steve and Terri, I couldn't feel anything but passion for these incredible animals that have thousands of years of evolution making them into the beautiful predatory beasts that they are.
Steve and Terri were happy to risk their own lives to help animals that they cared about. The time that Steve jumped into the concrete small pond that the meanest crocodile that I have ever seen was in because it was going to hurt itself by resisting... there is an indefinable spirit about a person that has the courage of his convictions. He said that the last thing that anyone wanted to do was to get in that pond because the croc had been mistreated and would take it out on anyone that went in there... but because he was hurting himself, Steve was perfectly fine with putting his own life on the line so that the croc could be transported to his zoo where he would be happier.

I don't really believe in heaven, but I do believe that what comes around goes around and Steve helped so many animals and so many people...
The world is a much better place for having Steve Irwin in it and I will miss him.