Alligators can move very quickly and get about half their body out of the water. This alligator tried to catch a great blue heron flying by.
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Great capture!
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Here’s a C1 brought in for repair to my friend that was bitten into by a fairly large Gator last month in Fla, Saint Lucie River. He remarkably didn’t capsize and said it was a harrowing 700 foot paddle to shore
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That one got a mouth full.
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Hard to see how that the boat could make it 700’ to shore with such damage. Adrenaline is an amazing hormone!!
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Gator hunting season starts around September.
wow
so this got me to thinking, then googling,
for comparison:
(note to self, don’t get chomped on by an Orca, or, uh, any of the others in the list)
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Kings of Composites,
how often they roared,
of how lightly they flew,
how quickly they soared.
But thems ain’t clouds ya float in,
where often toothy tastes explore,
and “Tupperware’s” the better bet to finish,
when scutes reboot a Charlie Wilson’s War?
Does seem to stir the curious mind to consider, “Carbon standard or perhaps the expedition layup Textreme? Maybe the IXP or Balsite/Spectra TuffStuff with an inner aramid mat?”
Which then, in these gator-polluted streams of semi-conscious, ripples Sheriff Ed Tom’s words:
“The point bein’, that even in the contest between man and steer, the issue is not certain.”
Or maybe, “Fly like the wind, Bullseye!”
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