Re: [Paddlewise] Another incidence of the amusement park syndrome

  As you say, 'Gators aren't usually that interested in you as lunch.  I would think that since this was a night attack the gator probably was unable to identify his prey as a human.  
   Mating time isn't good either.  A bull gator is like a Moose or buck in heat -- brains disappear.  Buat also watch out once the young hatch.  Mama is very defensive.  An acquaintance of mine in Florida, a botanist, had his arm taken off a few years ago when he inadvertently got between some younkers and Mama...
   When I lived in Florida lo those many years ago, I paddled among them without any feelings of trepidation.



-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve Cramer <cramersec_at_charter.net>
>>Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Another incidence of the "amusement park   syndrome"
>If people in Florida didn't swim in lakes and rivers where alligators 
>live, there would be a lot of hot dry people in Florida. People and 
>alligators share water all the time in the South, and alligator attacks 
>are pretty rare. 
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