That part of Alabama was one Florida
Posted on 11/05/2024 1:18:35 PM PST by Red Badger
GATOR Ping!...................
Yep alligators have gators too.. That could be why he grew so large, less competition., because they do not have a lot of swamp areas.
So Alabama beats Florida even at Gators? That’s just humiliating. (Sorry UF fans, I’m just being silly. I don’t even like the Crimson Tide.)
So...NOT a surprising state at all. An adjacent state.
Stupid clickbait headline.
I don’t see wat is surprising. Alabama has some of the panhandle. Alabama got screwed by some shady dealings. Alabama should have had the whole thing below the state to the coast.
“I don’t see wat is surprising. Alabama has some of the panhandle. Alabama got screwed by some shady dealings. Alabama should have had the whole thing below the state to the coast.”
Florida got screwed. It once extended all the way to the Mississippi but shay dealings took it away.
Then I’ll say it...
Roll Tide!
Wow….
I have an alligator that I estimate to be 10-12 ft that frequents my property. He came up beside a duck nest box that I have in shallow water in the lake by my house. Only exposed was from the tip of his nose to his eye which was twice as long as the roof on the duck box which was 18 inches. So his head, nose to behind the eye, was about 36 inches. He is a big boy.
West Florida was occupied by Americans before 1812.
Mississippi and Alabama were made states by 1819. That included those parts of West Florida the Spanish acknowledged as already annexed by the USA (Biloxi Bay and Mobile Bay).
The rest of Florida was purchased by the United States from Spain in 1820. So how was that shady? It simply was the process of the So0uth being settled by the USA.
CHOOT !
CHOOT !
“Alabama got screwed by some shady dealings. Alabama should have had the whole thing below the state to the coast.”
No shady dealings. The US sent troops to steal territory from Spain. The stopped at Perdido Bay and established that as US territory which then became Alabama. Later, Spain gave up Florida.
No offense taken, or is that no offense for the Gators as of last Saturday?
“Alabama got screwed by some shady dealings.”
Georgia was screwed when they took half and made it Alabama.
The Bayou Beast is dead, or so the story goes.
JMO, YMMV
That part of Alabama was one Florida
“Surprising” would have been some place like New Hampshire or North Dakota.
I know it’s wholly unnecessary to tell you. But be careful out there and don’t get ambushed.
Should have left it alone to see how really big it could
get. There were reports of 23 ft gators by early Spanish explorers
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