The conventional wisdom is Alligators don’t eat during the winter, they are slower, and following that thought they are safer.
Well, you could hear the crunching even across the water.

It’s December and temperatures were still cool because the sun was rising.

There was a crab breakfast here.


ACE Basin, South Carolina.
Crunch crunch!
That’s how we usually find out one is eating 🤣🤣. Not very polite chewers.