My SIL still lives in St. Pete. Would love to do that. Maybe this summer when daughter can care for the chickens for a week we will. Need to check on my parents graves and see how my brothers headstone turned out.
I've seen the road that goes down to it but never on the lake itself. Lots of time spent on Lake Kissimmee. Used to fish the river before the Army Core of Engineers screwed it up.
A friend that worked at the Kennedy Space Center tells of the gator problems they had when he worked there. One came in a bay and ate the tires off of a vehicle. They are not afraid of anything that I know of. They are prone to eat the udders of cows that wade into infested waters when other...
Probably so. No way to domesticate a gator that I know of. I would think he gets plenty to eat and has a cement pond to live in. Usually there is a trick roper or such for entertainment. I only saw that act once. One year they had a cowboy doing trick roping on top of his horse trailer. Bet his...
I'm guessing this is about a 10-11' gator that was part of a rodeo act down in Lakeland, FL. No way I'm getting in the ring with a bull gator. I was safe behind some steel bars.
A kid I was in the HS band with could call gators with her saxaphone... I've listened to them bellow at night. What a lot of people don't know is just how fast a gator can run on dry land for a short distance. They could sure enough catch me but I'm never going to give them a chance. I got...
I've seen so many of them in FL roadside ditches in the last few decades. They are truly everywhere. At least they didn't follow me up to the land of my ancestors here in AL. There's no way they would be protected here by some ink on a piece of paper.
I watched a lot of them. Most entertaining. My dad hunted gators at night from a small boat with a 22 rifle. Shot them in the eye. Great Depression Era. Went to school with a kid whose dad hunted gators (poached) in the 50's - early 60's. He worked with my dad and would come to work covered in...