Alligator Sighting Again

Last weekend I was in the garden and saw the young people  (J-1 and J-2) a few doors down working on their pond bank.  They were making a round pit with cool-looking bricks.  I thought it was going to be a barbecue pit but they said that, but mainly to be a place to burn stuff and to sit beside and toast marshmallows.  Well, I don't remember if they said that about the marshmallows, but what better thing to do that to make S'mores of a lovely evening.

Well, Ripples came up in conversation.  J-2 said that Ripples was  "right over there by the baby house".  And sure enough, there he was, kind of floating back and forth by the bank that goes up to the house where there are several small children, including one who is REALLY small.  J-1 was concerned about those children.

Eventually Ripples must have seen us because he began crossing the pond towards us.  He was more than halfway across when he stopped.  After a moment he put his snout up out of the water and at the same time lifted his tail and back end up out of the water and did a kind of dance.  After a moment he sunk down into the water and started away from us.

It was quite interesting but very creepy!  I do not know what he had on his mind, but there were three of us out there so I am pretty sure he was not thinking "supper"!  Too much of a hassle with such a crowd pond-side!

Sorry we did not have our cameras out.  It would have been interesting to shoot...  At about 2:45 of this YouTube video has something similar to what we saw.  Both his head and his tail was up.  We did not see any water dancing, but we were not expecting to.