Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Alligator Park

For Spring Break I took the children to an Alligator park. You walk along pathways that gators cross and are right there in the water. It sounded pretty scary, but my friend that I went with, assured me it was safe. I felt safe, but looking back at the pictures, I wonder if I should have felt that way. It was a lot of fun and the kids absolutely loved it.

Read the sign. And we took our kids there?



Spencer (above) is checking out the momma alligator and her 11 babies as shown in the picture below.




The babies are kind of camouflaged, they have yellow stripes.






Taneal, Camie, and Spencer are standing on the sore near the mom and babies. You can barely see the mom between Taneal and Camie's elbows.







Check out that snapper!
This alligator is sliding into the water.













And Spencer doing what little boys do best.


























Right before we took this picture Taneal noticed a HUGE snake by their feet in the grass. We thought it was dead at first and then it slowly slithered away into the water. I took a picture of it and asked the ranger to identify it. It was a water snake but not poisonous.









Everyone that wanted was able to pet the real baby alligator held by the ranger.










2 comments:

Kimberly said...

We went at the beginning of February and only saw 3 from the distance. It looks like you had a great time and a good alligator turn out.

Slim said...

The only thing that worried me was that in most of the pictures, the kids have their backs turned to the alligators! Aaaaahhh!