Hi folks,
Having just returned from our two week holiday in Florida, there is a great sense of disbelief, which I am sure many of you have shared, that a holiday looked forward to for so long, is now over !!
One piece of news which I don't believe has been mentioned so far, is that there is a live 4 foot alligator in Magic Kingdom, in the waters surrounding Tom Sawyers Island !!
My son and I were on the Liberty Belle and managed to go up and speak with the captain, who pointed to the waters edge (the other side of the road from the Country Bear Jamboree), where a group of people were leaning over the railing looking at the bank below. It would appear that an alligator had swam via the connecting rivers and was very much at home, being regularly fed on turkey legs, thrown down by pass'ers-by.
I cannot claim to have actually seen the critter myself and wonder if anyone else can confirm a sighting?
Having just returned from our two week holiday in Florida, there is a great sense of disbelief, which I am sure many of you have shared, that a holiday looked forward to for so long, is now over !!
One piece of news which I don't believe has been mentioned so far, is that there is a live 4 foot alligator in Magic Kingdom, in the waters surrounding Tom Sawyers Island !!
My son and I were on the Liberty Belle and managed to go up and speak with the captain, who pointed to the waters edge (the other side of the road from the Country Bear Jamboree), where a group of people were leaning over the railing looking at the bank below. It would appear that an alligator had swam via the connecting rivers and was very much at home, being regularly fed on turkey legs, thrown down by pass'ers-by.
I cannot claim to have actually seen the critter myself and wonder if anyone else can confirm a sighting?
This is how humans are commonly injured or killed by alligators, they lose there fear for humans and see them as a food source. In the wild untouched alligators do not see us as food.. actualy a predator. The thing most people who visit here don't know is there are actualy native to florida... American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) Reaching a maximum size of 12 feet, although very rare and endangered they also do not pose a threat to us.
