They’re potentially anywhere in Florida. I have a neat photo from a ditch around a parking lot in Hollywood, I believe. Just happened to look into it. Gator probably lived on rats and cats. And they’re a given in the ‘Glades. The stupid little orange cone was more an attraction to me than a warning.
Right as I was slowing down to pull in an 8- 10 foot gator lumbered across the road from ditch to the next. I held my 10 year old daughter’s hand pretty tight...