Originally Posted by Old_Toot
Wondering if y’all have seen this before.

I bought a camp recently down in the swamps south of Pierre Part, home of tv’s “Swamp People”. Lots of gators in the area my camp is on an access bayou to the main lakes and bayous areas. The whole greater area is beautiful Spanish moss laden cypress and live oaks

The camp that I bought hasn’t been used in over a year and I’ve had a lot of outside cleaning and work to do, going twice weekly.

For the past 4 visits I’ve had a young gator that’s about 3-4’ long come up and just follow me around while I’m working. He’s not a problem, he’s not aggressive, just seems curious and is almost like a dog following me around. It’s the same gator as he has a chunk missing off the top tip of his tail.

When I go under my cook shed and turn on the floor fan to sip a cool one and rest a bit he comes and lays about 2-3’ away from me and then follows when I get up and go back to work.

I know they’re curious but have never seen this type behavior before.

If he comes back Friday I’m gonna name him Gator McCluskey.

Considering the size of their brains I would definitely NOT make a pet of him.

Sounds like a very cool camp!!