Here In Reptile World

All right, Claudia is officially freaked out by the gators now. I think the recent rainstorms have made the local reptiles all giddy and now they're going all Cretaceous thinking "Woo-hoo! The Age of Rainforests is back, baby! No more of those wrinkled wheezing humans whacking us with golf balls!"

Well, that's what I imagined on my walk this morning when I came by one of the ponds and heard this LOUD cacophony of new frog-life, and at the far end a 5-foot long alligator scrambled up onto the bank toward the road. I stopped. He stopped. He scrambled back into the water and I turned on my heel and went back the way I came.
(Everglades alligator we photographed two years ago) Freaked out, I tell you! --cds