Snappy
A tricky beast, the American Alligator.
We drove along Alligator Alley and didn't see one of them. "Get me an alligator and make it snappy!" I cried with hilarious originality. I don't know why everyone groaned.
As soon as we turned off I-75, however, suddenly they were everywhere. Clearly they just don't like to be too predictable.
We spotted this one on the far side of a little river. Huge, he was. Enormous. About forty feet long.
Okay, well maybe not quite that. Perhaps about seven feet. Big, anyway. He was basking in the sun and we stopped the car and got out to take some photos.
After a few moments, he slid into the water - you can see his tail disappearing.
And then there was this:
Nothing but a few ripples. And suddenly it all looked a bit like the East of England, though with rather more sunshine than is usually found near Norwich.
At this point, however, we all worked out that we know something about alligators. And it's that they spend most of their time being very, very still. But when they want to move, they can move very, very fast.
Suddenly I found myself thinking of that scene in Crocodile Dundee where the crocodile rushes out of the water at top speed, and we all thought that it really might be a good idea to get back to the car.
There are lots of pretty stretches of water in Florida. But you wouldn't want to go for a paddle.
Yes, it looks rather like East Anglia.
East Anglia with sunshine. And East Anglia with alligators.
We drove along Alligator Alley and didn't see one of them. "Get me an alligator and make it snappy!" I cried with hilarious originality. I don't know why everyone groaned.
As soon as we turned off I-75, however, suddenly they were everywhere. Clearly they just don't like to be too predictable.
We spotted this one on the far side of a little river. Huge, he was. Enormous. About forty feet long.
Okay, well maybe not quite that. Perhaps about seven feet. Big, anyway. He was basking in the sun and we stopped the car and got out to take some photos.After a few moments, he slid into the water - you can see his tail disappearing.
And then there was this:
Nothing but a few ripples. And suddenly it all looked a bit like the East of England, though with rather more sunshine than is usually found near Norwich.At this point, however, we all worked out that we know something about alligators. And it's that they spend most of their time being very, very still. But when they want to move, they can move very, very fast.
Suddenly I found myself thinking of that scene in Crocodile Dundee where the crocodile rushes out of the water at top speed, and we all thought that it really might be a good idea to get back to the car.
There are lots of pretty stretches of water in Florida. But you wouldn't want to go for a paddle.
Yes, it looks rather like East Anglia. East Anglia with sunshine. And East Anglia with alligators.
posted by Daphne at 6:10 pm
3 Comments:
Beautiful photos.
Are you sure you went to Florida? It looks like East Anglia to me.
It looks like Holland in the spring to me. Not that I've ever been there. But where are all the tulips?
The gator was a good 10-12 foot long...and one of us stayed in the car.....waving hand here!!!
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