Friday, July 22, 2011

Gators!!!

My older son LOVES alligators! He has been watching "Swamp People" on the History Channel and pretends to catch alligators all the time. I had heard about a place near a bayou that may have had alligators so we went there to eat. Lo and Behold, as soon as we got there, we spotted an alligator!!!
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While we would have preferred to see a bigger one (like the huge ones on the show,) we were still happy to see a 'gator in the wild swimming in the bayou.
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We saw four alligators altogether!
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The place we went was actually a restaurant and boat dock. It was cool seeing all the wildlife in the bayou. There are two alligators in this picture. It was so fun watching the water waiting for a head to poke up!
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And....we were so close! We fed our leftover fries to the turtles (the alligators didn't seem interested) but what the turtles didn't get, the perch (fish) certainly ate quickly!!
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There was a cool cypress tree across the water (hard to see actually) but it added to the magnificent scenery!
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1 comment:

Rachel said...

Oh my goodness - you left that comment on my blog about the snake, but I would have been FREAKING out about the gators! You are waaaay more brave than I!