Gators and Croks can run up to 30mph on land!!!!Ed in Tampa wrote:I may have told this before but, when we moved to Florida we had a small gator in our pond. It was so scared even a slight move and he was gone. Someone told us to feed marshmallows to him. We did and soon had a regular visitor.
Move ahead a few years and this gator would lay in the back yard, if I wanted to mow or something I would tose an orange at him and he would jump back into the pond.
Move a few more years forward to get him to move required a direct hit with a chunk of fire wood.
One day I saw him sneaking up a slight grade after a white Egret, I called my wife to the window and said look at the idiot gator trying to catch that bird. He was about 30 feet from him and could not get closer without exposing himself to the bird. I saw him croinching down to launch his attack.
Well in an instant he had covered the 30+ feet. He didn't get the bird but he got feathers. That is when we decided to have him removed. The county gator hunter came out, rigged a huge hook with a beef lung. The next day the gator was caught. Hunter taped the gator's mouth shut and walked him to his truck. Got a ball peen hammer smacked him in the head and that was that. Gator was about 12+ feet. Hunter and county split hide money and the hunter sells the gator meat to restaurants and keeps the money.
From all this I learned one thing there is no way I could out run a gator. My only hope would be if he slipped in my crap as I was trying to run away.
With the X on Anabel Island or Cabtiva on a the beach area, but b4 the beach under the pines an a back water area, with a gator about 5ft off shore, just the eyes and nose above water, X wanted a better pic, so she picked up about a 5ft branch and gave it a poke, she had to clean out her panties, like right now 1/3rd, the working 1/3rd was on land!!!!