Not the kind of breakfast I was thinking of

buzzard767

buzzard767

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Holy crap! I stepped out of the lanai door and onto the yard just 15 minutes ago. I was eating my morning yogurt and my brain hadn't awakened yet. After taking a couple of steps toward the lake I finally looked up and saw my next door neighbor only twelve (estimate) yards away. At 7 1/2 feet in length he's big enough to get me in the water for the death roll had I sleepily gone to the lake's edge.

Gotta keep your eyes open when you live near the Everglades. I could have been breakfast toast. Whew.
 

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YIKES Buzz!! Glad you opened your eyes and looked down!!


You need to feed him a clock!!





Get it? Capt Hook? LOL
 
:wow: He had his eyes on YOU! He was wanting some breakfast himself.
I suppose you see them pretty regularly right there. I would love to be where it's warmer but that would take some getting used to. :eek:
 
lilbopeep said:
You need to feed him a clock!!
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Or maybe a Glock in his little pea brain.

I usually look for him any time I get near the lake. The gator started coming here when he was about 3 feet long so he's a resident, sort of. He spends a week to a month here and then wanders off to some other lake for a couple of weeks but he always returns. No one has been feeding him though and that's a good thing. You can tell by the way he acts.

My previous house was on a different lake and we had a near ten footer in there a few years ago. It was obvious that he had been fed as he showed no fear of humans - as in he associated us with food. We had to have him removed because of little kids and lots of pets in the surrounding neighborhood.

Gators can stay under water for well over an hour. A couple of weeks ago three kids were fishing on the opposite side. They left just before dark and as soon as they were out of sight the gator surfaced no more than fifty feet off shore from where they had been. He had been watching them, invisible, the entire time.

Spooky
 
Doc said:
:wow: He had his eyes on YOU! He was wanting some breakfast himself.
I suppose you see them pretty regularly right there. I would love to be where it's warmer but that would take some getting used to. :eek:
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You aren't kidding. How'd you like to meet up with a 20 foot Burmese python some night - in your driveway. It's been happening. Read this article. It will scare the crap out of you.

In the last 5 years, right here on my golf course, the following have been spotted.

Gators - hundreds
Cougars
Bobcats
Black bears
Fox - no biggee
Coyotes

Snakes: Pythons, Rattlers, Pigmy Rattlers, Coral, Water Moccasins, & Copperheads

It makes it a little unnerving when you're trying to concentrate on a putt. :yum:
 
Geez, Buzz! I like the Florida coast, but wouldn't like dealing with those kinds of creatures!

SS, do you have the same issues?

Lee
 
That's not a problem, that's nature!
They were there first, ya know. ;)
 
We have coyotes, and neighbors have suspected that that's what has happened to their missing cats :cry:. :mrgreen: Could you get me a little macro shot of that gator :mrgreen:. shudder......snakes......shudder :eek:
 
Or maybe a Glock in his little pea brain.

A Glock would take care of the problem. And just think of all of the gator meat you'd have.
 
Leni said:
Or maybe a Glock in his little pea brain.

A Glock would take care of the problem. And just think of all of the gator meat you'd have.
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If I want something that tastes like chicken I'll go to Hooters and have some double dipped drummies.. :yum:
 
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