Funny pic/gif thread...

dquarasr said:
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!!

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Nice sized gators! One of those could have swung a tail and knocked a bike and rider ass over tea kettle! Gators open their mouths to cool too so the one with his mouth open might have been just chilling.

Those remind me of a group at Lake Martin. As I am sure you know they mostly raise their bodies just enough to move comfortably. However, they are capable of walking with their legs fully extended and even their tail in the air. The biggest one I saw doing that was about eight feet long. It was walking slowly across the road and I would have liked to have taken a picture or three but there was a photographer between me and the gator that I had to respect. They look a whole lot more like a dinosaur walking fully extended like that.

Hu
 
ShootingArts said:
Nice sized gators! One of those could have swung a tail and knocked a bike and rider ass over tea kettle! Gators open their mouths to cool too so the one with his mouth open might have been just chilling.

Those remind me of a group at Lake Martin. As I am sure you know they mostly raise their bodies just enough to move comfortably. However, they are capable of walking with their legs fully extended and even their tail in the air. The biggest one I saw doing that was about eight feet long. It was walking slowly across the road and I would have liked to have taken a picture or three but there was a photographer between me and the gator that I had to respect. They look a whole lot more like a dinosaur walking fully extended like that.

Hu
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Yes. That particular venue has been there for years. We figured if there hadn’t been an encounter in all those years, and they were actually allowing morons like us to traverse the 15 miles, it must be safe, right? 😀
 
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dquarasr said:
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. View attachment 654454
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Normally when they are sunning like that they pretty much ignore you. About 30 years ago. I took my boy who was about 2 at the time for a ride on loop road, near shark valley where this was taken. Loop road is 20 miles, mostly dirt and the best way to see the everglades in a car. I was showing my boy a 12 footer hanging out in a little pond next to the road when he fell and scraped his knee and started crying. That gator could sense the vibrations of a little one in distress and made a bee line for us. Scared the sheet out of me and we got back in the truck quickly. My other gator story happened at a golf tournament at the PGA in St. Lucie. One of the players shanked one next to a big gator sunning by a pond. He was afraid to approach so he threw his sand iron at the gator to scare him away. The gator went back in the pond but took the sand wedge with him:p
 
RickLafayette said:
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Was taking the slow road to Houston from Big BR one night. Hit every bar on airline from just the other side of the Port Allen strip, then hit every bar between Opelousas and Lafayette. Was traveling with my partner in crime, Bobby. Bobby wasn't much to look at and we were covered in grease and dirt. We had girls, knock out good looking girls, falling all over us!

It was a twelve hour run from Baton Rouge to Houston. Would have taken longer but Bobby went about a hundred feet, maybe less, the wrong way on the divided highway to turn left at the last bar before I-10. State trouper hauled us over. By a miracle no DWI. He did tell Bobby if he got back behind the wheel he was going to jail. Told me if I was still in the area in fifteen minutes I was going to jail. We made considerably better time after that! Only then did I find out why we were babe magnets that night. Bobby was letting it slip to all of them that we had a couple pounds of pot. Not true but it was making for a fun night.

Hu
 
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