Just thought I'd share a nice photo.

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It gives birth in that culvert every year. So there is a short fence, sorta, for a few feet. So the one pic I held my camera over the fence and zoomed a little.. It's very much used to peeps. But ya, if she was having a bad day.... I may be dumb, but not stupid... 😎 🐊 She's called 'Ol Lefty. Missing right front foot.
 
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This pic is from one of our friends we met down here a few years ago. From indy...View attachment 335270
Sure looks like a few pair of shoes and belts to me. Of course we have them here. But with all the thousands of hours I and my sons have spent in the wild wood, even swampy woods, I/we have yet to spot one in the wild. We do have at least one living down over a hill from us in an abandoned golf course pond. But unless he, or she, loves climbing steep hills and then crawling over a fence, I never worry about one in out back yard... But obviously living in middle Georgia, they are here as well and plenty of them.
 

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Throughout the campground there's deep ditches. U will find them scattered there too. There's one we see in the same spot every year. They must like a certain area and claim it...
 

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Here's one more from our friend. Notice the little guy in her back...77428.jpeg
 
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Throughout the campground there's deep ditches. U will find them scattered there too. There's one we see in the same spot every year. They must like a certain area and claim it...
Ha, why mess up a good spot if you can get all the food and protection you need.
 

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Not sure if I've ever tasted one, may have at a wild game dinner we used to attend, until the state put a stop to that. They were worried that someone would get some bad wild game and sue the state. But you can bet your last dollar that if I were stuck (okay lost) in the woods and one came along, he or she would be meal time...
 

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Taste like Chicken.:p

Yes, I've had gator for breakfast. Still prefer sage sausage.
 

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Yep...they taste somewhat like chicken. We have plenty of them here on the Withlacoohee River where I live. I have seen a few 10 footers. When we ride the river at night we often see more than 15. These are usually in the 4 to 6 foot range.
 

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In Orlando right now ... from our room we are watching a 4-5 footer sunning himself on the sand trap/beach on one of the golf course ponds.
 

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In Orlando right now ... from our room we are watching a 4-5 footer sunning himself on the sand trap/beach on one of the golf course ponds.
Welcome to the south 'Speck..... Fresh shrimp is on the menu tonite..... We're 1400 miles from home, you?
 
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