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102--Florida: Gator Wrestling @ CherieSpotting     Dec 10 2002 - 14:16 PST cherie writes: Greg and I headed back to Calfiornia and Florida for two weeks! We kept Scirocco in the San Blas Islands under the careful watch of the Kuna Yala. In Florida, our first stop was the Florida Everglades, a magical mix of things that can kill you. I was bite once, but only by a fire ant. Greg offered to bite me (I think he got a bit jealous), but I'm not into that. (Ha Ha) John (Greg´s dad), Greg and I took a crazy air-boat ride through the glades and then watched a crazier man wrestle a gator. Don't try this at home. Click on each picture to see it full size. read comments (0) | write comment| views: 6239    | rated: 0.0    printer-friendly version   I don´t think this gator likes being sat on. There´s lots of neat birds in the Everglades. I´d like to think they wouldn´t need to put up this sign. Isn´t it just common sense? Gator heads! Let me know if you´d like that to be your Christmas gift this year! A girl who paid $10 to hold a baby alligator. They´re so cute when they are small and can´t eat your face off. I told the baby gator a joke. Clearly he´s laughing. Does this bird know that his knees are backwards? This alligator ain´t no baby. The crazy guy who wrestled the gator. It is best to let the gator smell you before you try to sit on it. That way, the gator can recognize your smell when he eats you for lunch. I guess gators are like kids. If they don't want to go somewhere, you have to drag them. For those of you with gators in your backyard...don´t try this at home! This guy seems to be looking for a "gator hickey." When you get bored watching WWF, you might consider GW (Gator Wrestling.) A close call. Open wide. Gators seem to brush their teeth as often as children. There must be a better way to earn tips than sticking your head in a reptile´s mouth. A gator coming towards me. Who knew they could run so fast?(For the record, I prefer the small cute ones.) Attention cat-haters: A new way to get your neighbor´s feline out of the tree. (Greg's going to kill me for writing that. He loves cats.) Peaceful lilly-pads (moments before the air-boat screamed over them.) The air-boat. Greg, John and Cherie. (Luckily we survived the "gator show".) The sawgrass of the Florida Everglades. Is that bird aware that there are about 1.5 million gators in the Everglades just waiting to pounce on it? I guess our air-boat driver didn't read the "Don´t Feed the Alligators" sign. An alligator playing hide and seek. We watched the gator sneak up on this unsuspecting bird. (Can you see the gator?) The beautiful Everglades. Sawgrass and lilly-pads. It looks like a child picked the colors for this bird. This gator was less than a foot away from me. Luckily I was in the boat! He's so real, he looks fake! I had the urge to pull this twig off the gator´s nose. But after seeing the gator´s teeth, I reconsidered. (And my parents think I have no common sense!)