This is the follow up to ‘A Little Warning, Alligator’, click to read the first part. The following images will have several best viewed large to see the entire landscape.
Like the first article I continued photographing the Alligator I met in the reeds. He surprised me by still swimming around and giving me the profile warning. Except maybe it wasn’t for me, or Ellen. What we couldn’t see until standing in the gator trail was the open water down the long marsh. The view is blocked by tall reeds.
Below is the scene we now had. The first gator still profiling, but all his friends too. This view showed 9 more right here. He might have been profiling them. After all, he’s an Alligator so who knows.
Below, still feisty and profiling. The photograph is a little wider while shifting to the right. On my left he also had a few more friends.
The next images, wider still, show ‘a bunch of gators’ LOL.
If possible view these last images large. Oh, count the locals that are milling around our friend.
I see maybe 21 above.
Final count was hard, they bobbed up and down, a few swam out of the reeds, pretty much a moving target. I had a final count of 35, Ellen came up with 40 from her different spot.
I’d call this one of those ‘can’t make this stuff up’ moments.
Bear Island, ACE Basin, South Carolina.
Interesting behaviour. I wouldn’t be dipping my toes in to test those waters 😏.
I certainly wouldn’t be wading out there. Truth is there are thousands of places people canoe and kayak among them here. No problems. It’s always the person walking their dog by the water…
Wow. I knew that you had alligators, but that is an incredible number of them in one place. Thanks for taking the wide shots so we could so many of them.
Amazing I know, thanks. I wasn’t sure about a shot like that but glad I did publish it.
The most I have photographed in one shot was 64. Water was flowing into a dry marsh and all the big guys were piled up. A true adventure since we were on a dike looking right down. Gotta love the Lowcountry.