My Dad's friend from Florida sent these pictures to him and he shared them with me. This is a really impressive gator. I don't think I would want to run into this guy in the water.
M4ck

http://www.clubtitan.org/downloads/image001.jpg
http://www.clubtitan.org/downloads/image002.jpg

Dang! Is that a dog or a deer?

its a deer.
m4ck

I lived in FL for 5 years and it is hard to tell sometimes. My K9 is 100 lbs and I have seen deer smaller than him in Daytona area.

Nice size gator none the less!!!!!!!

Those are great pictures...Thats crazy to see it just cruzin' through the water with a deer in its mouth..

:nervous:

Looked like a cat then changed into a deer.

I'll just stay here in Texas where we have snakes. They are easier to deal with them something that big. Skeery stuff man.

Those photos have circulated cyber space for a few months now. There are a lot of different stories about where the pictures were taken. I received them in an email claiming the pictures were taken at a lake here in California. Here is the real story behind the photos:

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In August 2004, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) finally cleared up the issue by issuing a press release identifying the photographs as having been taken in south Georgia (near the Georgia/South Carolina border) by a USFWS officer in March 2004:
The sight of a 12 to 14 foot-long alligator is something south Georgia folks see occasionally, but few have seen one take an adult deer out to lunch. Actually — for lunch.

The photographs of this deer-eating alligator were taken from the air by Terri Jenkins, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service District Fire Management Officer. She was preparing to ignite a prescribed fire at Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge, about 40 miles south of Savannah, Georgia, on March 4, 2004.

"One advantage of fire work is you get to see that 12-14 footers are common from Santee National Wildlife Refuge in South Carolina to Coastal South Carolina to Georgia’s coast," said Jenkins. "It looks like the alligator population is doing extremely well."

This one was at least 12-13 feet long. Jenkins said that some bull alligators have a 35 inch girth.

The sight of a 12 to 14 foot-long alligator is something south Georgia folks see occasionally, but few have seen one take an adult deer out to lunch. Actually — for lunch.

Awesome. I remember something from back in school about how a man could actually hold an alligator's mouth shut ... not sure I'd want to try that one out though.

I'll just stay here in Texas where we have snakes. They are easier to deal with them something that big. Skeery stuff man.

You need to come on down for a visit! We have gators down here too.

Now all we need is the Croc. Hunter to jump out on his back with his child in his arm wrestling with it!!! :wink:

"Whoa.....croiky (sp) that was close!!" (in my best Steve Irwin voice...lol!)


All I can say is "Bambi killer"!! :crying: :crying: