Sneaking Up On Alligators

Took a canoe trip with the RV park owner.  Every other Wednesday one of the park owners takes the first 14 of us to sign up on a free canoe trip on the Myakka River.  So we paddle for an hour and a half down to the gianormous RV park down stream have lunch and paddle back.

This was a fairly noisy group so we didn't see any alligators on the way down.  Coming back we got out in front of the pack and saw a few small ones (5' or less).  It was another perfect day so the going was easy.

Here's the group headed out of our tiny inlet on the river.

This is the launch site.

The lunch stop.

No alligator pictures as they were a bit shy, and that was just fine.  After a few attempts at photographing the birds and scenery, I decided that my time was better spent concentrating on not going swimming.

Later that afternoon we went over to the The DeJean's as they just got back from picking up Roger Scott and Lilly at the airport.  Naturally, Lilly crashed on the last 5 minutes of the ride home, so she slept for a while in the driveway while we caught up with Roger.

Keep warm.