There’s a lesson in all of this somewhere.
Man, oh man, what a way to go. Just two years younger than me. Way too young to have it all end in the mouth of a croc.
Dang, that’s having a bad day for everyone.
I think crocodiles are more vicious than alligators and gators are bad enough.
Crickey!!
There’s a Hall & Oates song in there somewhere. ..
By recent count, we’ve got OVER 3,000 ‘gators in the lake behind our Florida house. Jeez, how many is too many? Isn’t that enough for the bunny huggers?
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Mother Nature has a way of reminding us that without our tools, we aren’t the top of the food chain.
A Salty strikes.
I had a teacher who was also my best friend’s Mother. She once told the class a great story of her Grandfather killing an 18 foot alligator on the Choctawhatchee River around the turn of the century. No not this century, that century.
That is either a record or close. Yes I believe her due to some of the details.
My father was in New Guinea in WWII. He talked about a lot of things. Swimming in the rivers was evidently a common way to cool off. No mention of crocodilians. I suspect so many armed men made quick work of the population before he got there. They taste like chicken, don’t they?