Friday, April 1, 2016

Alligator Hunt


I’m on an alligator hunt. Carefully stepping over logs and through the brush, a chipmunk scurries out of sight. I think I feel a bite.



Alligator mississippiensis - Oasis Park - 001.jpg
By H. Zell - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38981057


Alligator.jpg
Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28556



Krokodille.jpg
CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=438070

28 comments:

  1. all great pictures; the last one is a bit creepy!

    betty

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    1. I don't know. The last picture makes me think of a piece of jewelry. However, alligators are fearsome creatures.

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  2. awww they're so cute! from over here.

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    1. So true about many dangerous things, from a distance you can admire their beauty. lol

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  3. I think you'd be the hunted if you tried to mess with them.

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    1. You have to respect them. They especially like dog. So it is best not to tread water where they live.

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  4. Yeah, that last one is quite, uh, creepy. Can you imagine taking a swim and running into a set of eyes like that?

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    1. I had not thought of that. I don't imagine you would have to look at them long.

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  5. Cool shots! You feel a bite, it's probably too late.

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    1. A bit of silliness on my part. Hopefully, it was a mosquito.

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  6. stopping by and now running away. Don't want to be chomped

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  7. Alligators are scary. Whenever I see one I think how terrifying a dinosaur would have been because surely they would have the same cold eyes.
    Susan Says


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    1. I have a healthy respect for them and most other creatures. Lizards and the like are not my cup of tea; but, a teacher I worked with had a pet lizard for the students and it made me appreciate them more.

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  8. Funny you should mention alligators today...I have family who once lived in the Everglades. They seemed to take it in stride when alligators wandered onto the porch - or into the house - ack! I avoid iguanas and gila monsters too;-) Great pictures, Ann!

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    1. My father comes from near the Okefenokee Park. They were tough people for sure.

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    1. Thanks to wikipedia commons. I've seen alligators and taken photos but not as good as these.

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  10. I like picture #3 best--never been close enough to see such eyes, but then again don't want to be! And I like the poetry in the opening lines :-)

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    1. Thanks Kendra, one thing I have discovered traveling the blogosphere is a love of poetry.

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  11. This certainly gives Hank the creeps! Never want to mess around with any of it. Apparently the crocs had not evolved too much from the dinosaur days

    Hank

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    1. Sorry hank, they are actually just big lizards. As long as you aren't in water, you have the upperhand. Unless you test fate and act stupid.

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  12. I've never lived around alligators, and never wanted to. Even from this distance, they are frightening.

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    1. I have a healthy respect for them. I have encountered them on occasion, I am not that frightened of them. Careful is a more appropriate description of what I feel.

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  13. These lines have given me quite a fright! I have never seen an alligator up close or from far for that matter... These images are stunning or scary - depending on how one looks at them.
    Happy AtoZing!

    @yenforblue from
    Spice of Life!

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    1. I wrote the lines in jest. I'm sure the bite was a small bug.

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