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I used to live in new Orleans. In HS we swam in a river off the Intracoastal Canal on the west bank of New Orleans. We came back the next day and spotted 2 large gators in the same exact spot where we had been swimming. Don't know their size but maybe 8 feet. They looked full-grown to me. I was actually surprised because I didnt think there would be gators in this particular area. Still a stupid thing for me to do but unfortunately kids do stupid things.

I know what you mean. A few weeks ago my wife and I were on a boating trip up the altamaha river here in Ga. We were just taking our time taking it easy sight seeing. I pulled the boat up on shore and tied it off cause I wanted to show my wife a lake back in the woods just off the main river. We hiked back to the lake but it got some kind of hot in those woods. we decided to get in the lake just to cool off, didn't do the back stroke or anything. Stayed in there probably 15 mins got out and walked back to the boat and resumed our trip up river. A few days later at work me and one of my buddies were talking about the river and he told me that he had been to that exact same spot with his brother a few weeks earlier and had seen the biggest alligator he had ever seen sunning itself on the shore of that lake. Talk about having cold shivers running up your spine. I have had the willies ever since. We could have been alligator shit.