South Carolina has too many alligators (for the most amazing photo, click here). Now they're going to the beaches. That's right. Just when you thought it was safe to go in the water, a six-foot long crocodile turns up. Yes, right in the surf on S.C.'s Isle of Palms, a beach outside of Charleston. Hundreds of people were ordered out of the ocean.
This isn't even a local 'gator. It's a tourist 'gator. I've waterskied past native alligators in brackish water (and didn't dare let go of the ski rope), I've been afraid they might be under the bed when I was a kid but I have never, ever worried about an crocodile eating me in the ocean. That's the shark's job. And I thought alligators didn't "do" salt water.
But this one did. That's because it's a rare American Crocodile, native from the Florida Keys to Florida Bay. Officials are speculating that someone either released it illegally or it swam up from Florida. For the complete story, which is about as informative as this post, click here.
Wow..its really a nice story.We should careful about crocodile.
Posted by: datenrettung festplatte | June 10, 2008 at 02:26 AM
I spent all my teen years in central Florida. We swam with gators all the time, though never in the ocean. That's where the jellyfish of pain and anguish live.
My favorite scene in Monster's Inc. is when the boy yells, "Mama, they's another gator in the house!"
"Gator?!" she shoots back, "Get me my frying pan!"
Posted by: groovyoldlady | June 10, 2008 at 10:35 AM
We have fresh and salt water crocs... no that's not how they come in the can... and you just simply DON'T go anywhere near them. But we do only have salt water sharks though.
Posted by: Angry | June 12, 2008 at 05:50 AM