We continued our walk down to the bridge that crosses over the lagoon and I spotted something across the water. Mac has much better eyesight than I do so I asked him what it might be, but he felt that it was just a stump. But as we crossed the bridge and got a closer look we realized that it was an alligator that had crawled out of the water to sun bathe. He doesn't look very big in the picture, but in person he appeared to be some where between 4 and 5 feet in length and fairly hefty. He didn't appear to be the least bit bothered by us standing on the bridge talking about him, he rolled his eyes, gave us a rather bored look and returned to his sun bathing.
Seeing vultures and alligators when out walking makes the eagles and dolphins we occasionally see, seem rather tame by comparison!
ReplyDeleteI'm with Annie, I'm chuffed if I see a woodpecker, can't imagine what it would be like to see alligators.
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I'm rather glad that I don't come across alligators when I'm out walking! Turkey vultures are OK - they do a great job of cleansing so the are 'A Good Thing' as Martha would say:)
ReplyDeleteWe just went on our walk to Arabia Mountain and we must have seen 30 or so turkey vultures circling overhead...now I know I should call them a "wake" of vultures. Like you, I think a "wake" sounds about right.
ReplyDeleteLuckily, we don't have to worry about aligators on our walk!