We traveled towards the mouth of the Everglades and booked a 90 minute ride on an airboat to take us out to see wildlife! We had to wear headphones to communicate to each other as it sounds like a helicopter right behind you. We can go slow or super fast “flying” over the water (swamp). There is no reverse or “stop” button…. so the driver is a professional with this boat.

This is the airboat…. we shared it with a couple from Denmark. We were dressed very warmly as out there with the boat going fast it cools you down fast.

This is a 15 foot male alligator just beside our boat…. not a cage around it. We turn off the loud engine and just take pictures, of course we do not walk over there!!

Paul and I go and do a long walk most mornings (sometimes together and sometimes not). I have walked by ponds all the time and see birds and wildlife…NEVER thinking there could be an alligator there… until I came across this sign…

After I saw that sign I freaked out!! It may look like a fence but it is just a few posts in the ground to mount the sign… THERE IS NO FENCE. The alligators could be roaming the neighbourhood? What the heck?? I then never walked on that side of the sidewalk, I do not need to feed the alligator with my legs! This is normal here … I never thought a neighbourhood pond could be a home for an alligator or two?

DID YOU KNOW… That here in Florida alligators are hunted in October only. One alligator per hunter. They eat alligator all year round here because there are alligator farms just for that purpose.