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There is a great place to vacation in East Texas called "Chain O Lakes", no phones, no tv, just lovely log cabins with porches that stick out over the water. Horse back riding, fishing, hiking, swimming with the fish and turtles. It was Eden.

They have gators galore and a 12 footer in a pond outside the fabulous restaurant that you can watch while gourmet dining. You can order a horse drawn carriage to take you the short distance to the Herb Hill Farm restaurant. Herb Hill will give you a tour of their organic gardens before dinner, all fresh, fresh food.

I loved to sit on the porch swing with my coffee and watch them swim up in the early morning and feed them marsh mellows, if a couple of people in a canoe paddled by, the gators would vanish under the water until the canoers had passed then pop up for more marsh mellows. Even the birds and squirrels were tame and came right up to you begging for a snack.

I cried when we had to leave so my sweet hubby agreed to stay three more days, I could have stayed forever, it was so stress free. Generally if you stay out of their territory they stay out of yours, if not, exit the area immediately. I only encountered one aggressive gator and he was a two and a half foot long baby that swam right up to me when I was fishing, I popped him on the snout with the end of my rod and he stood up and hissed at me, so I vacated to the car until he went his way. I don't see them as a threat as they seem pretty predictable.