Re: [Paddlewise] Alligators on the bayou

Keep in mind that those Gators won back-to-back NCAA basketball
championships in 2006 and 2007, and a football championship in 2007.
They may act lethargic, but man they can run, jump, and shoot.

Bradford R. Crain

Subject: RE: [Paddlewise] Alligators on the bayou


> It seems a truism, where there are gators, there are hungry gators. I 
> wonder
> how my love for kayaking would coexist with dinosaurs roaming the water.
> Nice pics!
>
> Mark Sanders
>
> -----Original Message-----
> On Behalf Of Natalie Wiest
> Subject: [Paddlewise] Alligators on the bayou
>
>
>
> The weather was a perfect 10 for paddling a few  Saturdays back,  here
> in southeast Texas and thankfully I was able to maximize the exposure.
> Dusted off the olde sea kayak and off I went with three other
> like-minded souls on Armand Bayou.  One of our number is brand new to
> the area and requested gator-sightings, and boy, did we ever deliver!
> These are more alligator photos than I've ever been able to take, and on
> top of that we had cooperative roseate spoonbills (birds) and even the
> black vultures.  Temps were in the 70s;  blue skies and sunshine, it
> hardly gets better.  The photographic evidence is at:
> http://good-times.webshots.com/album/562657522EEbuIz
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