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.
Showing posts with label alligator. Show all posts
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Thursday, May 28, 2020
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
The Alligator is For Real!
We had heard there was an alligator in the pond behind our house last Halloween. Despite watching the pond closely every day, we had seen nothing. Then on Wednesday Dear One came in from the deck to say there definitely was an alligator in the pond. Yikes!
The next day I was on my walk. At that point I was walking across the dam at the end of the pond. As I looked down from one end of the pond to the other all of a sudden I saw a bumpy rough-looking dark place in the pond. There he was! Yikes times two!
You can barely see the black spot in the lightest part of the pond. That is the alligator.
On the weekend I happened to go to our HOA Facebook page by a fluke. The very first thing I saw was a picture of a very large (probably seven feet long!!!) alligator "sunning" on the bank a few doors down from our home. Really YIKES!!! Since I have not gotten permission from the photographer to post his picture, just imagine a large alligator in a field on the bank of a small pond. That is what the picture shows.
Personally, I prefer to see the alligator in the middle of the pond! Other people around the pond want the gator gone. Well, me, too, but I suppose if we are fair, ponds in the south are the actual homes of all kinds of not so friendly folks. Like the water moccasin. And now the alligator. Apparently we have TWO alligators, one quite a bit smaller than this one. We will have to watch carefully every single time we go out.
To be honest, I have a horrible image in my mind of the big old guy on the deck just outside our slider door...! If that happens, I will take a picture of him, then will call the HOA to GET THAT GUY OUT OF HERE!!! I don't care if the pond is his natural habitat and that almost everyone around the pond thinks he is great and have even named him Ripples. Maybe that is a crazy concern, but....
The next day I was on my walk. At that point I was walking across the dam at the end of the pond. As I looked down from one end of the pond to the other all of a sudden I saw a bumpy rough-looking dark place in the pond. There he was! Yikes times two!
You can barely see the black spot in the lightest part of the pond. That is the alligator.
On the weekend I happened to go to our HOA Facebook page by a fluke. The very first thing I saw was a picture of a very large (probably seven feet long!!!) alligator "sunning" on the bank a few doors down from our home. Really YIKES!!! Since I have not gotten permission from the photographer to post his picture, just imagine a large alligator in a field on the bank of a small pond. That is what the picture shows.
Personally, I prefer to see the alligator in the middle of the pond! Other people around the pond want the gator gone. Well, me, too, but I suppose if we are fair, ponds in the south are the actual homes of all kinds of not so friendly folks. Like the water moccasin. And now the alligator. Apparently we have TWO alligators, one quite a bit smaller than this one. We will have to watch carefully every single time we go out.
To be honest, I have a horrible image in my mind of the big old guy on the deck just outside our slider door...! If that happens, I will take a picture of him, then will call the HOA to GET THAT GUY OUT OF HERE!!! I don't care if the pond is his natural habitat and that almost everyone around the pond thinks he is great and have even named him Ripples. Maybe that is a crazy concern, but....
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