Originally Posted by
alan s
For every gator death, there are probably 1000 injuries, at least. Probably tens of thousands of attacks that went unreported, because no one was hurt. Just something to think about while lying awake in your tent at night.
Have you ever heard of a single case where a bike tourist was attacked by a gator? Or a case where someone sleeping in a tent was? I know that I haven't.
Much of the country has some kind of critters you could worry about. If you start to worry about touring where there are gators, venomous snakes, bears, boars, moose, bison, elk, wolves, coyote, or whatever, you might as well stay home.
I figure that motorists are the biggest risk pretty much where ever you tour, but I don't worry all that much about them either.
Touring in Florida, or elsewhere, just isn't that dangerous of an activity.