Note to self: Don’t kayak in florida.
All those beautiful water bodies in Florida and not a single one is safe to swim or kayak. Why a person would canoe in alligator infested water is beyond me.
I have no direct, face to snout experience with Gators or Crocs. We don’t tend to have such reptiles running loose in Detroit. My question is:
Do Gators know enough to purposely try to tip a Kayak or canoe over and dump that Kayaker into the water for easier feeding?
I have heard of ocean dwellers, such as Orcas, or Killer Whales deliberately ramming
boats full of people, seemingly just for the hell of it.
We have gators and Cottonmouth moccasins in the freshwater, sharks in the salt water, mosquitoes the size of hang-gliders, roaches the size of mice and snakes the size of tree trunks.
Welcome to Florida!.......................
Final report says they passed canoe over gator in 2.5 ft of water and gator tipped canoe.
Now, if it was an attack croc like the attack rabbit that went after Jimmy Carter, that's a different story. I always thought crocs weren't that aggressive, but never having lived in gator country, I don't know. I would instinctively avoid inner tubes, but I think I'd feel safe in a boat.
Had them come up to me while riding on an air boat in the bijou, begging for snacks. They are very cute in a toothy carnivorous dinosaur kind of way.
“Preliminary information indicates that a woman was canoeing when she encountered an alligator and went into the water.”
Went into the water? Voluntarily, or involuntarily?
Fished several tournaments in Kissimmee during the 1980s...Hard to believe that anyone would be dumb enough to kayak in those waters...
Let every member of the kayak fleet be armed.
What was a Kayaker doing in a canoe?
You’re just not the top of the food chain in rural Florida.
The current report says the woman and her husband were in a canoe and coming to shore. In shallow water they went over the back of the alligator and it raised up from the bottom and capsized the canoe. The woman landed on the back of the alligator and it bit her. I live on a lake in central Florida and have large alligators cruising by every day in the summer. They are usually submerged with only their eye and nose above water. I can see them right away, but this couple probably did not recognize it and paddled right over it.
I have often seen people kayaking in INFLATABLE kayaks within a few feet of gators. I have also seen gators try to get aboard boats with 2-3 foot freeboard! Florid is NOT a statewide zoo!
Lots of people kayak in Louisiana in water with gators. I think the gators usually shy from people, but kayakers don’t go out of their way to antagonize the gators. There’s kayakers in Cane Bayou every single day and there’s never been an attack I’ve heard of.
Bear spray probably didn’t work.
