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MY SECOND EXPERIENCE
WITH A GATOR
I am a true nature lover and there's nothing I like more than walking through the forest looking at nature.
One day I decided to go for one of my normal nature walks among a very thick area of cypress trees. The trees were so thick in there until you normally didn't find alot of grass growing. Every now and then you would walk up and find a very sunny patch where a tree had fell down and let the light in. Here you would find beautiful vibrant green grass and flowers growing.
One week it had rained for days. It had flooded the banks of the creek and the water had flowed through the cypress trees about 3 inches deep. At that time I was nuts about frogs and I looked for them all over the place. I knew that since it had been raining for days, I was sure to find several different kinds in the cypress tree swamp. So I put on my boots and off I went. I walked to the fence....looked all around and made sure knowone was looking....crawled under.....ignoring the No Trespassing Sign like I had always done.
I absolutely loved walking through this area because there was not a house in site anywhere and the wildlife was something that I couldn't pass up. It was mostly birds and an occasional armadillo..... and squirls. I never thought about the dangers at all because I had never been given a reason that it was dangerous. I was only thinking about searching out the frogs.
The day was sunny, I had my bucket and little garden shovel in hand. I usually would dig myself up some type of Lilly growing before I headed back home.
It was a normal nature walk, like always. Except this time I was walking in about 4 inches of water. I still remember the smuck smuck smuck sound that it made when I took each step. It was sooooo beautifullllll!
Then! I saw something make a water ring ahead of me! I thought- YES! There's a frog scampering across the water!. It was scampering all over the place to! I took off running in the water and it was a cat and mouse game of chase. I was having the time of my life.
Finally the quick little fellow cornered himself in a tree limb that had fell to the ground and I rushed my hands down to grab him!
To my surprise it wasn't a frog at all. It was a baby gator. The little fellow wasn't more than about 6 inches long. Well I was wowed to see a little gator in the wild and was so excited! My curiosity got the best of me and I had never touched one before and I wanted to. Sooo, I reached down and grabbed up the little fellow and he was beautiful! But all of a sudden he started squeaking this little baby squeak sound that I can't explain. I held the cute little guy up being careful not to hurt him and looked at his little mouth and eyes and thought to myself.....just how beautiful this creature was.
Well--- needless to say, this was a mistake.
All of a sudden I heard the sound of, well..... what sounded like air coming out of a tire. I started looking around to see where the sound was coming from and oooooooo myyyyyyy goshhhhhhh. What I saw looked like a big ugly motor boat barreling through the water, parting it like soft butter. She was about 25 yards away. (Thank Goodness!) I can still remember the white color of the water as it was flying over the back of a big mad mama gator, as she ran toward me!
(I guess it was the babies Mama)
Goshhhh ahhhh mightyyyy did I quickly put that baby down and start running! I realized that I couldn't run very well in the water and the mud was slippery, making it hard for me. I had walked this area many times and I knew where every little tree stump was. Its a good thing too because up I went! I climbed the nearest tree that had fell over and was leaning up against another one. That Mama gator was still behind me and came within about 10 feet of the tree I was perched on. Well I remembered how that gator jumped and got that duck in my first encounter with a gator so I climbed as high as I could go. As I sat up in that tree I thought to myself....you know, nobody knows where I'm at.....and you know, nobody would ever think of looking for me in a No Trespassing Area either......and you know.......I should of never picked up that baby gator.
You know, that Mama gator knew I was up in that tree because I think I sit there for what felt like a whole hour before she finally made her way slowly back toward the direction of the creek.
I learnt my lesson that day. Never have I let my curiosity get the best of me again when it came to animals. I climbed back down the tree when I knew it was safe and I made my way back home.
I didn't even go and pick up my bucket and garden shovel either.
I didn't get my frogs that day either.
I didn't get my Lilly plant that day either.
So off I went to change my pants ....again.
You know, I never did go back into the cypress trees for a nature walk again.
And you know what else, never again did I cross a No Trespassing Area either.
So for anyone who is reading this. NEVER do these stupid things! And Never go anywhere, that somebody doesn't know where you are.
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My First Experience with a Gator!
by: Pamela Price Svoboda
When I first moved to Florida I had no knowledge of Alligators what so ever. In fact the closest I had ever been to one was when I would go to the local Grill and get my weekly basket of gator tail. Well being young and newly married, we picked a nice little apartment that faced the back of a biggg pond and right on the other side of the apartment was a huge creek that ran straight to the bay.
One day I was sitting out on my cute little back porch just sipping on a nice cold glass of tea, with my feet propped up on the banister of the porch. The cool breeze was blowing and I was listening to the ducks quack in the yard and all was well. Each and every day the ducks would come to me once they noticed I was sitting and relaxing on the porch. I would toss bread to the ducks and watch them eat.
Well this particular afternoon my little duck friends came and decided to perch up on my neighbors back porch banister. They quacked and quacked while looking at me; as if they were saying...hey lady give us some more food. They had become my best buddies.
I was all relaxed, leaning back in my chair and taking in the sunshine. Occasionally I would reach over and hand my duck friends a few bites of bread. All at once......in the middle of all the summer silence, a Gator sprung up and jumped what must have been about 4 feet and grabbed one of the ducks that was perched on the ledge quacking to me.
Feathers were going everywhere and the ducks were screaming bloody murder! Being startled, I fell backwards in my chair and landed splat all over the porch floor with a glass of tea spilt all over me!
The noise of the ducks screaming and the bushes rustling scared me to death! I thought I would never get up from that porch floor fast enough either. You see, I was slipping and sliding all over the wet cement floor where I had spilt my glass of tea.... And let me tell you, my heart was beating a mile a minute. I could not believe what was happening right beside me!
My poor little duck friend had been grabbed and he was screaming....as the gator took him out of the bushes he was thrashing about from his mouth. It was only a few seconds when the gator tossed the duck slightly and his big mouth fully wrapped around the pretty duck and he was gone.
You see...unknown to me but an alligator had crawled up from the water and was lying under the shrubs in front of the neighbor’s porch.
The Horror of it all!
That was my first up close experience with an alligator.
I didn't even know there were alligators in the pond.
Well, I cried for the poor little duck and part of the tears were from being scared senseless. Once I collected myself and watched the gator crawl back to the water and slide in. I took myself inside the apartment and changed my pants.
