Gators are definitely no joke, especially a 10 ft'er. And you truly cannot always spot them. I've got pictures of them 8-12 feet out in front of me that you wouldn't know they were in the picture unless I told you.
Yep.
It would be awful easy to stumble over one laid up in post flood floatsam in heavy river bottom palmetto or switchcane. They have eaten more than a few deer, hogs and head of livestock.
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