Did you know that alligators are cold blooded and gain body heat by basking in the sun? Okay so most people know that but most people haven't seen one apply baby oil to its belly. The hard part, really, is getting the cap off the bottle.
Right now, as I type, there is a lake about 50 yards away from this computer that more than a few gators call home. We've been watching them all day but they don't really do much. If they are up on the shore and you get too close to them - like within 48 yards - they head back to the lake. And then you only see their eyes. But it's still enough to cast a fishing line right over them.
The Wally Gator Show premiered in 1962. The theme song went like this:
Wally Gator is a swinging alligator in the swamp.
He's the greatest perculator when he really starts to romp.
There has never been a greater operator in the swamp.
See ya later, Wally Gator.
I caught a couple of fish today but Chick caught more. She is a natural born fisherbabe. Dad, who lives here, has never caught a fish out of this particular lake. But I don't think he tries very often. The fishing was really Chick's idea. She's not afraid of Wally. Dad is.
Alligators have sensory pits along their jaws that detect changes in water pressure helping them to detect prey.
I have eaten alligator once or twice. It tastes a lot like chicken. But not in the same way that frog legs taste like chicken. Gator tastes like chicken in the same way that Emu tastes like beef. It's not chewy like Octopus but it does have the same zest to it like South Pacific Eel. But it really isn't like seafood, it's gamier like Rhinocerous. But not nearly as pricy. Of course it's best served on a bed of rice with a nice box of White Zinfadel.
In 1996 the University of Florida Gators won their first football National Championship.
Tomorrow we are headed to the beach where we hope to find no alligators. They should only be living in fresh or brackish waters. But maybe we'll come across some sharks. Boy, Florida is dangerous!
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