On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, R. Walker wrote: > *biggest* wild/live gator I have ever seen. On the bank, basking in the > morning sun, that sucker was an easy 12 footer, and he was highly > annoyed Sounds like your gators are just too small to be laid back. Saturday we put in at Flamingo (bottom of Everglades NP) on the canal that goes up to Coot Bay Pond. There are 2 ramps side by side. We chose the left one because there were 3-4 gators sunning themselves on the right one. (Or you might call it the wrong one.) When we returned, one had moved over to the left one. He was over to one side so I was able to get out some 10 feet away. He looked happy so I wasn't too concerned, and when the others came up they got out too. After a closer look I estimated him (her?) at 13-14 feet. As we were loading, a little blue heron actually got within about 5 feet from him and survived, so he must have already had lunch. e Elaine Harmon - eilidh_at_dc.seflin.org - eharmon_at_cs.miami.edu *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Nov 02 1999 - 20:31:48 PST
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