I was looking for calm and quiet – I found it. You may register other feelings at the 25-30 alligators we observed along and in the road.
Taken on Loop Road (off U.S. 41- Tamiami Trail) in the Big Cypress National Park.
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Wow, that’s a lot of alligators! I was excited to see them when we visited Florida, but I wouldn’t want to get too close 😉
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Wow, that’s one huge alligator! We mostly see sheep on the side of the road and sometimes in the middle of it, too. 🙂
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That’s a smaller alligator – more photos coming soon. No sheep here because it is subtropical and way to hot for them. Besides, the wildlife would have them for dinner. But I have seen them in Scotland, England and Ireland. And we have some in Michigan, up north where we spend our summers.
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Gators make me nervous, but good to know the cooler weather slows them down a bit. 😉
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Ooh! I’ve never seen one along the road like that. A big one too!
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This was one of the smaller ones, Susan. More photos to come.
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Yeah, nothing about alligators feel calm to me. Although the backroad through nature does feel calming.
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Wow, that’s a lot of alligators!
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I’d feel more calm if I were in a vehicle and s/he were moving away as in the photo. 🙂
janet
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I was when I took that photo.
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I thought you might have been. 🙂
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But there are other photos when I wasn’t. They aren’t very hungry during the winter months because they go into semi-hibernation. But they still can move fast and don’t like to be harassed.
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Hmm…going for a walk along that road would seem to be ill advised. 🙂
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I doubt I would feel so calm if he was coming my way
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Nice photos. I am not familiar with many of the US road signs. What are the posts with the yellow rectangles along the side of the road? And they only go one way, the way you are going… mmmmnn
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They are only to mark the side of the road because there are no curbs or other barriers to keep people from driving into the shallow water on each side. It can be foggy here and there are residences at the far end of the road so it could be used at night.
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