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Old 03-12-15, 10:53 PM   #9
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You should see the alligators that live in more rural areas. I was boating on a creek off the St.Johns once. Round this bend there must have been 8 or 9 adult gators in plain sight.

That meant there where several more out of sight. Gators very often eat each other so the real big dudes are often cannibals. My buudy and I decided to split on the way out we saw a kyaker.

We advised him that it was best to go no further he kept on so we waited round the bend shortly he returned at full speed he was like a propeller with the oars it was pretty funny. We told you so.

Where they can really get you is when they rest on the bottom you step on one and he'll have you. Some years back some men where gigging in shallow water for arrow heads. One man stepped on a gator resting on the bottom(you can't see them most time like this) it of course roused and grabbed his leg and began the twist to drown the man. Lucky for him his friends where near and hit the gator with their gigging rods and it fled. If the man had been alone I'm sure he'd have been killed and the cause unknown as he'd have been eaten.

Some are "urbanized" and less hostile though in my mind still very dangerous and some people see them as a curiosity not the predator they really are.

One last gator story. I've personaly witnessed an adult in a road get hit at 70mph and it lived with no serious damage. This one was my friends fault we where driving at night in his car. I saw the gator in the road assumed my buddy did as well but he kept going. So I yelled "stop there is a flipping(word altered) gator". Too late we nailed it felt just like a speed bump which in effect it was. Ripped off the bumper cover we looked back and the gator just kept going on its merry way truly one of natures toughest survivors been going strong since humans where yet to walk fully erect.

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