Seeing Gators in Glad is normal. Not seeing them is time to be concerned.
For example. Ocklawaha river between hwy. 19 and the Rodman dam. Sometimes we see no Gators. Yet one sunny day we counted 21 and stopped counting. Where were they on the no gator day?
Overstreet, I’ve had similar experience on Black Water Creek in Seminole Forest. A shallow, narrow run sometimes they are so numerous it makes me nervous, other times I’ll see none at all.
Try the Myyakka at low water. They line the banks like cord wood. I had a small one ram our canoe trying to swim under it.
Sometimes Okefenokee at the Fargo end you never see a single gator…
…they come in groups of five.
I’m so glad that I live where I do. The only thing in the water I might have to worry about attacking me is the Adirondack leech.
I haven’t met a southern paddler who worries about the gators, snakes, red wasps , and hornets. The gators and snakes are more worried about us.
The wasps and hornets are fairly predictable and usually easily avoided.
The skeeters, horse flies, and deer flies are the bad actors. The ticks and redbugs are only a problem if you are in the brush. You never use Spanish moss for TP.
@string said:
I haven’t met a southern paddler who worries about the gators, snakes, red wasps , and hornets. The gators and snakes are more worried about us.
The wasps and hornets are fairly predictable and usually easily avoided.
The skeeters, horse flies, and deer flies are the bad actors. The ticks and redbugs are only a problem if you are in the brush. You never use Spanish moss for TP.
Get out to the “call of nature” only to get into SAND SPURS! That’s a bad actor.
@Overstreet said:
@string said:
I haven’t met a southern paddler who worries about the gators, snakes, red wasps , and hornets. The gators and snakes are more worried about us.
The wasps and hornets are fairly predictable and usually easily avoided.
The skeeters, horse flies, and deer flies are the bad actors. The ticks and redbugs are only a problem if you are in the brush. You never use Spanish moss for TP.Get out to the “call of nature” only to get into SAND SPURS! That’s a bad actor.
Just part of the landscape.
Be sure you can ID poison ivy in its many variable leaf shapes before using leaves!
Imagine having to learn about these things the hard way. We did.
My wife’s brother is a vet and a reptile specialist and it turns out that he examined the critter. It’s a male, now named David after the guy that rescued it. It was cold and undernourished and had apparently eaten some plastic…possibly whatever was in it’s enclosure and that may have been what caused the owner to release it. In any case David is now warm and well fed and living in a wildlife sanctuary.