Sunday ride in Everglades with pics!
12-08-08, 11:07 AM
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Great pics, thanks for sharing! I'm going to be in Florida in a couple of weeks, and this is incentive for me to rent a bike and try to drag my wife along.
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12-08-08, 08:24 PM
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OK - This is really unbelievable!!!! My family all live in Florida..(Boca and Lake Worth) .and when they see an Alligator it is rare and a huge conversation point! So you just take a walk or ride ont his trail - and bam there's an alligator**********??Weren't you guys scared??? I mean my goodness! I would be scared- awed and scared. Amazing!!!!! I mean I worry I might see a snake in GA and try and avoid the squirrels..but you see giant snakes, gators, and a mom and her baby!! And then post the pictures like it is an ordinary bike ride?? I mean that guy was one big fella! Thanks for taking the photos!
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I've been that close to gators in Georgia, but I'll never do it again after watching a video of a gator running down a hill to the water. It didn't slither or such, it ran like a cat, fast, nimble and on its feet only. No legs touching the ground. No belly touching the ground. It ran about 25 mph like a cat and when it got to the water it slumped back onto its belly and resumed the lazy look.
That cured me of getting near a gator again. That and the video from Thailand of the animal trainer losing his arm to a gator. He put it in the gator's mouth (in front of an audience) and the gator clamped shut and did about ten rolls in a second or two. Took the man's arm off as easily as I could pull the stem off an apple.
Yuck.
Nice pics, though.
That cured me of getting near a gator again. That and the video from Thailand of the animal trainer losing his arm to a gator. He put it in the gator's mouth (in front of an audience) and the gator clamped shut and did about ten rolls in a second or two. Took the man's arm off as easily as I could pull the stem off an apple.
Yuck.
Nice pics, though.
