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ShootingArts said:
Alligators writing the signs might explain the signs along the bank of lake martin which this looks much like. "Warning walkers and hikers. Aggressive breeding alligators!" Were they warning against being eaten or sexually attacked?

Hu
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People were awesomely stupid! The state had used the plastic fencing to fence around nesting alligators. A lady was going inside the fencing which was just tight around the nest and inside a fence further away by the road. Taking pictures of course. She called to other people, "Come on in, she doesn't mind." The first they were going to find she minded was when she attacked. Unless a person has seen an alligator attack they are clueless to how much faster than a human an alligator is!

This was just a short distance from the landing Big Jim hung around. Roughly fifteen feet of bull gator! Unfortunately he became a little too socialized and had to go to that big luggage rack in the sky. I had pictures of him with his head near a five gallon bucket. His head was not just longer, it was wider too!

We had a three predator faceoff once a lot like the ending of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. A night heron was fishing on a log walking back and forth, watching me and Jim, each about thirty feet away and thirty feet apart. Jim was facing the heron but not forgetting me. I was taking pictures of the night heron but not forgetting Jim and making sure he knew I wasn't. At his size he has no natural predators and fears nothing including man. If I appeared to have forgotten him he was extremely dangerous. Nothing I could do anyway, in the time it took me to turn around to try to run he would already have me. Fortunately alligators don't realize how slow humans are. They seem to equate our reflexes to that of a deer, something they feed on when it comes to water. Bend over like you are trying to drink or appear to not be paying attention to the gator and they can be extremely dangerous if about nine feet or over.

RIP Big Jim. Unfortunately nowhere that it could be guaranteed he and humans wouldn't come in contact.

Hu
 
ShootingArts said:
People were awesomely stupid! The state had used the plastic fencing to fence around nesting alligators. A lady was going inside the fencing which was just tight around the nest and inside a fence further away by the road. Taking pictures of course. She called to other people, "Come on in, she doesn't mind." The first they were going to find she minded was when she attacked. Unless a person has seen an alligator attack they are clueless to how much faster than a human an alligator is!

This was just a short distance from the landing Big Jim hung around. Roughly fifteen feet of bull gator! Unfortunately he became a little too socialized and had to go to that big luggage rack in the sky. I had pictures of him with his head near a five gallon bucket. His head was not just longer, it was wider too!

We had a three predator faceoff once a lot like the ending of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. A night heron was fishing on a log walking back and forth, watching me and Jim, each about thirty feet away and thirty feet apart. Jim was facing the heron but not forgetting me. I was taking pictures of the night heron but not forgetting Jim and making sure he knew I wasn't. At his size he has no natural predators and fears nothing including man. If I appeared to have forgotten him he was extremely dangerous. Nothing I could do anyway, in the time it took me to turn around to try to run he would already have me. Fortunately alligators don't realize how slow humans are. They seem to equate our reflexes to that of a deer, something they feed on when it comes to water. Bend over like you are trying to drink or appear to not be paying attention to the gator and they can be extremely dangerous if about nine feet or over.

RIP Big Jim. Unfortunately nowhere that it could be guaranteed he and humans wouldn't come in contact.

Hu
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We had four couples do the 15-mile bike loop at Shark Valley in the Everglades. You were allowed to bike it or take the tram. No walking allowed.

We were biking about 6 miles into the loop on a paved trail about 15 or 20 feet wide. It was February, height of the dry season. We came upon a group of gators, must have been 30 or 40 of them sunning themselves. They were laying perpendicular to the trail, 1/2 on the pavement, half on the grass, just like pt109’s photo, but a lot more of them. They were between 3 and 12 feet long. The girls freaked out. We agreed that the guys would be on the inside between the girls and the gators. We scurried past them. None of them moved a muscle although there was a large alpha on the far end with its mouth open, a sign of agitation. But because he was like that before we rode up, we knew (hoped!) he wasn’t agitated at us, rather another male.

We rode past uneventfully but we sure had pictures and stories to tell!!

EDIT: Here's a photo of what we had to ride past.
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