Beep, beep, beep.
If I had a back-up alarm, it would be going off right now. My casual perambulation down the causeway path has just gone into a rather more-urgent reverse gear. Where the heck did that gator come from?
And that’s the more-or-less true-distance view after I backed up. Yikes.
I wasn’t seriously wondering where he came from: his angle of repose and wet hide indicated he had just walked out of the pond behind him. What I was wondering was why I hadn’t seen him sooner. But as other casual perambulators walked between him and me, ignoring my sputters and not asking what I was filming, I stopped wondering why: Dead still, he blended pretty well.
And then he stood up.
Join me on my morning stroll and catch the whole encounter (& more besides!) in the short (1:18) video, below. And if you like to take a coffee on your gentle walks, try Nature’s latte (Or should that be a cappuccino?): an all-natural concoction of pond water and pollen.