@LnzyHou A big alligator approached me once while I was working at KSC. I raised my arms high and yelled, like you're supposed to do with a bear. It turned around and ran back into the river. So there. 😤
What a wildlife cowboy!
@WordsmithFL On Texas gulf coast I camped on a narrow strip of land between the lake and the bayou. Park signs admonished, please don't feed the alligators. I didn't sleep well that night, thinking how earnestly I wished not to feed the alligators.
@walterbays Yeah, I think I'd draw the line at camping on their home turf.
@WordsmithFL neighbors couple of houses down have to be careful since a couple of gators like their shore. Our side of the lake is the swampy part; we can hear them but have never seen them
@floryloughead We live close to a wildlife refuge. The wildlife doesn't recognize the border. Most of the time, they flee when they see a human, so we have something in common. 😉
@WordsmithFL The gators are shy but the rest, not so much. We have ducks, cormorants, racoons, bears, eagles, hawks, owls, falcons, armadillos, possums, a pair of resident Sandhill cranes that knock on the door when the feeder is empty, gopher turtles, mockingbirds, cardinals, doves...
@WordsmithFL “okay, so that’s no swimming for alligators”
-Last words from a Florida man.
@CanisPundit That's how we cull the herd.
@WordsmithFL It’s all well and good to post it, but who’s keeping the alligators from swimming?
@sfleetucker Hard to say. The deputies never come back.
@WordsmithFL
Not a chance.