Are you a real Gator?

[Durty South Swamp]

Yes I'm a Gator but no I don't have scales. Just orange and blue running through my veins!

That's meth bro

 

[gator1946]

Yeah we have gators in the south. My son has one he can see from his backyard he occasionally spots swimming in his creek. No big deal.

When I went to gville, there was a Gator (the green scaly kind) on campus. Along a walkway in the middle of the campus this guy would occasionally say hello. He was maybe five feet. To my knowledge he never bit anybody. He was one of us.

 

[Bait'n Gator]

Killed this little guy in the middle of one of my cow pastures 3 or 4 years ago trying to catch a cow. He was a little over 11 feet.

 

[Detroitgator]

Yes.

 

[AlexDaGator]

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Killed this little guy in the middle of one of my cow pastures 3 or 4 years ago trying to catch a cow. He was a little over 11 feet.

I assumed you were a little older than that.



Alex.

 

[AlexDaGator]

When I went to gville, there was a Gator (the green scaly kind) on campus.

"A" Gator on campus???

When I went to UF, there were hundreds and hundreds of gators (yes, the scaly kind) on campus.

Lake Alice was teeming with them. You'd regularly see the little fellas sunning themselves. The biggest alligator I ever saw in the wild was in a ditch in the band practice field. It was as wide as the bottom of the ditch, enormous.


Alex.

 

[gator1946]

"A" Gator on campus???

When I went to UF, there were hundreds and hundreds of gators (yes, the scaly kind) on campus.

Lake Alice was teeming with them. You'd regularly see the little fellas sunning themselves. The biggest alligator I ever saw in the wild was in a ditch in the band practice field. It was as wide as the bottom of the ditch, enormous.


Alex.

No this guy hung out on a well travelled walkway somewhere at the northeast part of the campus. I never could figure out why the newbees didn't freak out. Most of us just got used to him. If I didn't get within 15 feet of him I wasn't worried about it. Sometimes when I wasn't watching for him I got a little too close and got an adrenalin rush. He was a lazy Gator. Must have been related to Mullen.

 

[B52G8rAC]

No this guy hung out on a well travelled walkway somewhere at the northeast part of the campus. I never could figure out why the newbees didn't freak out. Most of us just got used to him. If I didn't get within 15 feet of him I wasn't worried about it. Sometimes when I wasn't watching for him I got a little too close and got an adrenalin rush. He was a lazy Gator. Must have been related to Mullen.

Please don't conflate "Gator" even the scaly kind with Mullen.

 

[Bait'n Gator]

I assumed you were a little older than that.



Alex.

You've obviously never paid much attention to my post then.

 

[t-gator]

Did you still grab the duck? I would have left the duck and headed for the shore rapidly.

Pretty sure his duck was bitten off

 

[NavetG8r]

Pretty sure his duck was bitten off

Not completely. He left me 7" to play with.

 

[Nalt]

Funny you should post that, because the shaded area doesn't cover north Alabama.
Yet they are here.

Gators have been in north Alabama for years. Possibly at least 50 years. There were some released to try and control the beaver population in the Goose Pond backwaters a long time ago. It really isn't a big deal...

 

[Bama&GatorFan]

Gators have been in north Alabama for years. Possibly at least 50 years. There were some released to try and control the beaver population in the Goose Pond backwaters a long time ago. It really isn't a big deal...

We have basically made it a hobby to look for that gator (and others) when we go on bicycle rides. We have not seen it since I took that photo, unfortunately. I have a drone, and I think I'll fly over all of those ponds to see if I can spot it. Might not be too difficult from the air if it is near the surface.

 

[soflagator]

Gators have been in north Alabama for years. Possibly at least 50 years.

We have basically made it a hobby to look for that gator (and others) when we go on bicycle rides.

 

[G8trwood]

A real Gator, ffs, I have two PhD’s from Florida.

one wood handled and one fiberglass

 

[gator1946]

Try wading in the swamp up to your chest naked as the day you were born so you could have dry clothes to put back on after getting your duck. And while reaching for said duck, you notice a pair of eyes looking at you about 6' away. Yeah... that happened when I was a teenager.

Are you sure that was a gator or was it a horny girl.

 

[gardnerwebbgator]

Are you sure that was a gator or was it a horny Boy Scout.

FIFY.