I worded that poorly. I meant that we probably saw hundreds of alligators during our drive into KSC, distributed across a number of ditches. But they truly were everywhere there, and there were more than I could probably count in the ditches just a few feet beyond the edge of the parking lot. That, in particular, was pretty shocking since there were many within easy range of a small child if they were to wander for even a few seconds.
We were in a bus, so it was easy to look down into the ditches and ponds, and the ditches were truly just full of them.