'Bout 10 or 12 years ago down at Wakulla Springs which is just down the road from my place and happens to be the largest fresh water springs in the world, one of the glass bottomed tour boats came up on a 12-13 foot gator with what appeared at first to be a deer. The tour guide even commented that as gruesome as it was, that was Mother Nature at work, and it happens on occasions there on the Wakulla River and Springs. Problem was it was no deer, but rather a Florida State University student who had slipped into a restricted area to snorkle around a bit.
Don't mess with big gators. You are somewhat down the food chain to them :shocked2: . We usually have 2 maybe 3 gator related fatilities a year and Lord knows how many dogs that people (mostly northerners) let run around and play in the water.
Forgot to mention....biggest gator I think that I've ever seen was swimming along the I-10 bridge crossing Mobile Bay at Mobile, Alabama! That sucker looked like he was 16-18 feet long,and had an almost full grown porpoise or dolphin-depending on where you're from-in it's mouth flipping it up in the air and catching it like a kid with a baseball :shocked2: :shocked2: :shocked2:
