the Gatorland critique, by L.D.
Gatorland is known internationally as the alligator capital of the world and we intend to wrestle a few gators! We have been a number of times but this time was a critique of the park.
So off we went to Gatorland, but we didn’t expect it to be this hot (99 degrees and rising)! It’s O.K. for the alligators, however (they are basking underwater).
They will be swarming around when the chicken arrives, though. They actually push off the bottom of the lake and launch themselves into mid-air to try and grab some chicken parts dangling from a trainers hand! I don’t know why they call them trainers, a gator cannot be trained. It just goes where the food is!
In the suburbs during mating season they roam freely around the sub divisions and are found frequently in swimming pools and behind garbage cans. I remember an instance when a Mexican just arrived from Mexico and was working at Albertsons in Kissimmee. Now, this store is quite a distance from the large gator lake, also known as Lake Toho (but not to far as it turned out). Anyways, this man went to dump garbage in the dumpster when a gator of 20ft jumped out at him! Needless to say the Mexican moved "muy rapido" and only just escaped being a gator's lunch!
We always enjoy the Gator Wrestling, especially since last year the Wrestler got his head bit, and had some nasty wounds. Gators love Gator Handlers. Hopefully this time he may get attacked again, this makes for good fun (the children love to see blood). They also loved the Bullfighting in Spain when we took them there as a reward for failing their school exams. We love to spoil them!
Gatorland is an active alligator farm and we jumped at the chance to eat a Gator lunch. Those gator nuggets don’t taste like chicken, they taste like crap! Very chewy, we must have got an old gator or something but it must have died of malnutrition!
In Gatorland they not only have alligators they have all types of Florida wildlife, bears, panthers, snakes and many more including local birds. At dusk a huge bat house is opened and thousands of Vampire Bats leave the nest to search for skeeters, they eat 100 times their body weight in mosquitoes, so don’t stand underneath one it may unload on you! The children love to shoot them with a BB gun but it makes a mess when they explode!
Alligators seem to thrive at this place and they have approximately 4,000 to look after, they use all their parts, nothing goes to waste, from shoes to handbags, they even have a brand of alligator liquor!
After lunch we set off for Gator Gully Splash Park a new addition to the park (the kids need to cool down and possibly catch an ear infection from all the kids peeing in the water).
-L.D.
So off we went to Gatorland, but we didn’t expect it to be this hot (99 degrees and rising)! It’s O.K. for the alligators, however (they are basking underwater).
They will be swarming around when the chicken arrives, though. They actually push off the bottom of the lake and launch themselves into mid-air to try and grab some chicken parts dangling from a trainers hand! I don’t know why they call them trainers, a gator cannot be trained. It just goes where the food is!
In the suburbs during mating season they roam freely around the sub divisions and are found frequently in swimming pools and behind garbage cans. I remember an instance when a Mexican just arrived from Mexico and was working at Albertsons in Kissimmee. Now, this store is quite a distance from the large gator lake, also known as Lake Toho (but not to far as it turned out). Anyways, this man went to dump garbage in the dumpster when a gator of 20ft jumped out at him! Needless to say the Mexican moved "muy rapido" and only just escaped being a gator's lunch!
We always enjoy the Gator Wrestling, especially since last year the Wrestler got his head bit, and had some nasty wounds. Gators love Gator Handlers. Hopefully this time he may get attacked again, this makes for good fun (the children love to see blood). They also loved the Bullfighting in Spain when we took them there as a reward for failing their school exams. We love to spoil them!
Gatorland is an active alligator farm and we jumped at the chance to eat a Gator lunch. Those gator nuggets don’t taste like chicken, they taste like crap! Very chewy, we must have got an old gator or something but it must have died of malnutrition!
In Gatorland they not only have alligators they have all types of Florida wildlife, bears, panthers, snakes and many more including local birds. At dusk a huge bat house is opened and thousands of Vampire Bats leave the nest to search for skeeters, they eat 100 times their body weight in mosquitoes, so don’t stand underneath one it may unload on you! The children love to shoot them with a BB gun but it makes a mess when they explode!
Alligators seem to thrive at this place and they have approximately 4,000 to look after, they use all their parts, nothing goes to waste, from shoes to handbags, they even have a brand of alligator liquor!
After lunch we set off for Gator Gully Splash Park a new addition to the park (the kids need to cool down and possibly catch an ear infection from all the kids peeing in the water).
-L.D.
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