Fun Things To Do In The Mud

Yesterday morning we were watching this alligator make it’s way around the salt marsh at low tide. What that really ended up being was a slog through the mud while waiting for the tide to come in bringing fish with it. However, the ever alert gator will always jump on any opportunity that comes his way. In this case the alligator spotted a crab that thought it was safely hidden deep down in the mud. It turned into a bad morning for crabby who was not as hidden as he thought, and was promptly scooped up and crunched by our pal Mr. Gator. After that, it was time to continue on through the mud and head into the shallow water that was beginning to accumulate with the rising tide.

45 thoughts on “Fun Things To Do In The Mud”

  1. I don’t generally like to anthropomorphise but that ‘gator looks decidedly cross in the last couple of pictures. I went to a ‘gator farm when I visited Florida some years back. They really are primal, prehistoric beasts aren’t they? Fabulous pictures Phill.

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    • Thanks for checking out these photos and glad you liked them! Just for fun we constantly apply human characterisitcs to the animals as we observe and photograph them. Also since they can’t speak human we have to talk for them. 🙂
      It’s just one goofy way to make nature photography more entertaining.
      The alligators are quite prehistoric in their appearance and behavior. I believe they are the closest thing we have to a living dinosaur.

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    • Glad you liked these alligator photos! I was fairly close, but you want to see really close, click on “Alligators” in the Catagories on the right side of my blog. Go down to the post “You Never Know What May Come Creeping Out Of The Weeds!” Now that’s close. 😯 🙂

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    • Well I’m happy that folks check in and enjoy the photos! We do see “Big Bubba” from time to time, but this wasn’t him.
      There have been times when we have seen close to 30 alligators in a marsh pond at one time. So it’s tough give them names. But I did get photos of one guy catching crabs and then the next week again catching crabs and I could tell from facial markings it was the same animal.
      Thanks for checking out the pics!

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  13. Well hello Mr. Gator!!! That crab was merely a snack! Lucky for you, you have that awesome lens or you might have been the main course…;-) Awesome photos as always! Have a great weekend~!

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    • Hey thanks very much FeyGirl! Happy you liked the gator pics! They do eat some interesting things. One time I heard a loud POP and saw that one had found a large plastic bottle floating in the marsh and crushed it. The bottle turned out to be…Gator Aid. 🙂

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    • I was close, but if you want to see really close…on the right side of my blog home page under Catagories click on Alligators, then go down to the post “You Never Know What May Come Creeping Out Of The Weeds!” from Sept . 9
      Now that was close! 😯 😉

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  20. These things are fascinating and terrifying, all at once. I was around one of our marinas, maybe ten years ago, when they pulled out a huge one. I want to say it was 12′. Maybe 10′. But big. They tried and tried and couldn’t get him, so they finally made a call and got a couple of old boys from Louisiana to come over and give it a try. That gator never had a chance. He was up on the bank and trussed with his snout duct-taped in a flash. They flipped him over and we took turns rubbing his belly until Fish and Wildlife showed up to take him to a more desirable neighborhood. It was quite an experience, and your photos just brought it all back!

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    • I find the alligators to be fascinating as well, and they do a lot more then most people think. Some seem to have (well almost) personalities. 🙂
      I’m glad your story did not end in the gator being killed. They usually only turn into ‘problem’ gators as a result of people feeding or haraassing them. But very bad ideas.
      Thanks for checking out the photos!

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