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I wish I could make it. We’re in Naples for December for a nephew’s wedding late in the month and daughter/grandson visiting before Christmas, so our dance card around Christmas is pretty full.
Don: Are coming through Naples to get to Lake O on the 15th? Maybe we could meet for lunch?
Others: We’re moving to Bradenton January through March… Maybe a repeat forum lunch in a couple of months?
 
People may be feeding that gator, and it may have come over to see if you were going to do the same. I agree that most gators will not bother you, but they will bother small pets and children. It is a matter of size--until they are maybe 6-12' long, they are prey of bigger alligators. Once they get really, really big, they become predators.

There is a 17 mile paved path for shuttles and bike riders, as well as hikers, at Shark Valley. Often, on the west side of the loop, alligators crawl out of the ditch that follows that side of the road and lay on the pavement to get warm. People just ride bikes or walk around them with no problems. I once saw a ranger standing about 6' from one, with school kids circled around her, and she gave an alligator talk. Alligator just continued to lay there.
 
And gator bites do taste just like white meat of chicken!

If you get to Venice, FL, look up Snook Haven restaurant. Good barbecue, but down a dirt road east of Venice. Fun place and serves gator bites.
 
Rene T said:
Why do snakes make most people cringe even when just looking at a picture or on tv?
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I think it's a city thing...

We've been programmed to not have critters in and around our houses from spiders, to bugs, to reptiles...

Living in my RV in the country you get used to all the critters again.

I still "jump" when I come across a snake but I think that's the fight or flight adrenaline kicking in.

And I keep walking between trees and getting a face full of spider web. They rebuild as fast as I walk into them - LOL...
 
Growing up in Florida we got used to snakes, spiders, those big a$$ Yellow grasshoppers. We used to run through the woods and those big spiders would attach to your face when you face planted their webs. Snakes were very common. We weren’t scared of them. We just learned to respect their space.
 
Most snakes don't bother me at all, but I'm very respectful of copperheads and timber rattlers here in the northeast. When I was building our mountaintop home years ago, I remembered really quickly why I was taught to always lift rocks from behind instead of in front. I uncovered close to a dozen rattlers in the process. Back in my grade school days, my 6th grade class was taught in a former one room school house with a creek running behind it. In the spring, those of us that had one were asked to bring our rifles to school to help clear out the copperheads that had taken up residence along the creek banks near the school. Can you imagine that happening in today's world?
 
Can you imagine that happening in today's world?
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Unfortunately, no. But the deteriorating world situation, political correctness, the litigious society, media jumping on anything they can inflate to a crisis, etc. have all created restrictions wa-a-a-ay beyond what we grew up with.
 
Rene T said:
Why do snakes make most people cringe even when just looking at a picture or on tv?
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The term "most people" usually leaves me out and especially on this subject. I enjoy seeing snakes--any type other than invasive species. And the Everglades has many invasive species of reptiles.

So you will have to ask a "most people" type of person, not me.

-Don- Everglades, FL
 
NY_Dutch said:
Can you imagine that happening in today's world?
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I hope not. Just leave the snakes alone and they will not bother anybody, venomous or not.

Yeah, there are rare accidents, but venomous snakes are not nearly as deadly as bees. Or lightning strikes.

In the USA:

Lightning kills ~43 people per year
Bees (kills ~70 people per year)
Venomous snakes (kills ~5 people per year).

-Don- Everglades, FL
 
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