One of my goals for my visit to Sarasota, Florida was to get a close picture of an alligator. Since I don't have a GREAT zoom lens, this means I had to get pretty close for the alligator not to look like a log with bumps! Fortunately, I was able to visit Myaka State Park - which has LOTS of them.
For the gator picture above, I was able to get about 20 ft. away with the help of a berm dam between the Upper and Lower Myaka Lake, and a helpful park ranger, who kept me from getting eaten (another major goal).
Most of the other gator pictures I got there make the gators look like logs. The funniest picture I got (in a macabre sort of way_, is the one above, with two gators in the foreground, and a fisherman in waders in the background. Apparently, the gators and fishermen have a kind of truce going. Maybe it's because this was the middle of the day, and the gators like to eat at night or something. I would still think you'd have to be a pretty alert fisherman though!
They also had lots of other great wildlife, which I will be posting later. I got SO MANY great photos during this trip, that I am going to break them up by subject matter - Non Gator Wildlife, Mangroves, Beach, and Drum Circle.
As a final "plus" to my Myaka trip, they had gator badges in the gift shop. I'll be putting this on my camera case - along with badges for any other apex predators I happen to photograph in the wild. Zoos don't count :)
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