I read the Moose today, Oh Boy…

So here I am in late November sitting in a pair of shorts on a balcony overlooking a small lake. Life still not becoming too tough.

After the stunning success of my Moose safari up in Vermont, I’d been itching to get back on the wildlife trail. The primal human desire to hunt animal flesh in a vegetarian way has been eating away at me (not them) and so when presented with the chance to track down some new wildlife in Florida I jumped at the chance like a rubber spider attached by a short piece of piping with a bulb on the end of it that you squeeze to scare small children.

“Alligators are the new moose” is what they all say down here, so being easily led, I forgot all about my antlered friends and went off in a man-against-nature-way into the wilds with my good friend and host “Crocodile Nigel” in search of Alligatus Manytoothicus. In scenes reminiscent of Deliverance (well, I’m not from round here and I have it on good authority that I sure have a purdy mouth) we headed off alone into the swamp lair of the ancient and venerable beast in our trusty boat guided by a small bird, armed recklessly with only a camera phone and a can of coke…

Actually that wasn’t the boat we went on, and we kind of actually didn’t go quite as alone as I’m making out. This was the boat…

And these were the people we went with…

Anyway, supported by our brave geriatric troop we paid 8 dollars each for… OK it was a pleasure boat ride full of old people ably piloted by a retired biology teacher with a microphone and a love of birds.

So here we go… See if you can spot the alligators in these pictures…

Come on there’s not much time…

Yup, alligators are like moose in many ways, well mostly one way, they are very hard to spot. I do promise that there was a toothy reptile in each of those pictures though. They were just small and far away. Ah well, nearly Christmas…

Off to hire a proper boat today to go out on the intercoastal waterway for a few hours. See you after water danger…

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