"Yes, we have a number of alligator-infested areas, but not as many close to JSC as more to the west."
I don't know about "not as many." My sister-in-law used to take her kids to picnic down by the bayou near University of Houston-Clear Lake. She stopped going there after watching a "log" open up and swallow the trailing duck in a bunch of them swimming past.
The gator was at least six feet long, as the mallard was a one-chomp tidbit. Melted in the gator's mouth. Not even a feather escaped.
There is also Armand Bayou in the area. Gators in that, too.
True, but I was thinking specifically right there at JSC and nearby homes.
Lots of boats in all the waterways, so not as many gators as places like Brazos Bend and Oyster Creek, especially not all grouped together, as in "infested" enough to be sure that if you dropped a body in there, they'd get it right away.
They find 8-foot, 12-foot and even 16-footers over in the places I'm talking about. I've seen them many times. *One* is enough, believe me!