This very dead alligator was found on the beach Sunday in front of the Holiday Beach Addition. It appeared to have been there a while, and was starting to decompose. We are not sure when it washed ashore, but a group reported to have seen it the night before. Alligators inhabit primarily fresh water to brackish water areas, although they can occasionally be found in salt water. A gator may go into saltwater to clean parasites from it’s body. However, alligators lack salt-extracting glands and are unable to survive in salt water for extended periods of time.
I guess we've told him over a dozen times not to venture to the beach alone!
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Try wade fishing with your stringer dragging behind….Hint: use a longer stringer!
I lived in Gilchrist 28 yrs. I would fish in the Intracoastal Waterway, we always saw gators.
I had a firecracker stand on rollover and one morning I was getting ready, had the news on, there was my stand on tv with a huge gator under it.
Then one day I went outside to lay on my hammock and there was a gator under it.
People who lived in Canal City, had many pets missing, gators would come up and eat them
So in Gilhrist, we had many gators.
gators are cold blooded and this one probably succumbed to the chilly surf before it could get back to the marsh- sadd-