Spotted on the Anhinga Trail in the Everglades National Park. I'd love to say this was an eight foot monster but it really was a touch under five feet long and hence was still living very much under Mum's protective gaze. Would have loved to have seen her. Samantha, my guide on the trail, had lamented that we likely wouldn't see any gators, or much else in the way of wildlife, given the wet season had begun in earnest and the Everglades' population was happily dispersing across the more than million acres of the park. Leave it to kids to prove the experts wrong though. A group of chattering and bellowing YMCA youngsters spotted this specimen hanging out near the trail, and we managed to catch up to them, and it, before the gator beat retreat into the sawgrass.
Canon 40D with 70-200mm f/2.8, at 200mm, f/4 and 1/320 sec.
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