Well I was so proud of myself for doing such a great job of updates lately, then I completely dropped the ball. Sorry, I'll try better this time. I'm off work for 8 days and in Gainesville visiting the fam for a long weekend...and oh has it been an adventure filled time with the Mitcheners which is no less than expected. Today we decided to go and see some real life wild gators that mom just could not stop talking about. She'd only heard about this place from a friend and the directions she had were a little less than satisfactory, so in short we walked around a place that could easily be mistaken for the Saharan desert for an hour. Did I mention that Kallie and I did not get the memo about hiking and walking for miles and were dressed in our cowboy boots and flip-flops...oh yes it was an adventure...
When we finally arrived at this sign, I knew we were close and I was also glad that it was 2:30 which gave us plenty of time before dinner :)
When we we got there I was sort of in shock, at this place you can probably touch the gators if you wanted to, there is no gate, barrier, or fence holding you or the gator back from each other, and they were everywhere. I was also in shock when I overheard a father of a 3 year old tell his kid to move closer to the gator so he could get a picture. (This picture looks close, but you can rest assured that I safely distanced myself and zoomed in as far as I could).
To celebrate actually finding this place after around 2 hours of searching and because it was such a hike, we treated ourselves to some Dairy Queen which dad claimed he had never been to before (I think his age is really getting to him, because I'm pretty sure we went last time I was in Gainesville). Needless to say, he enjoyed everybit of his coke float...
Well, it's back to Birmingham tomorrow! I've been thinking Margo and I are long overdue for some shrimp and corn soup! Hope everyone had a good weekend!
3 comments:
oh what a journey this all was! DQ was without a doubt the best part!
Glad you enjoyed the alligator hunt... Next kayaking with the manatees
Love Mom
Wait a minute. Bed tax dollars go to fund a project called visitgainesville.com er just because someone lives in gainesville do not be afraid to consider your forays into alachua county visits-- as money is thrown at visitors not residents. your two hour search for what appears to be Payne's prairie where your mom must return after better research as to directions to the alachua sink in january to Witness the sandhill cranes. at best do a internet search for fantastic images of the wintering sandhill craines
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