Chuck,
I put a Hawaiian gator on my homepage for your inspiration:
http://myweb.uiowa.edu/jfwilcox/index.html
Joel W.
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Chuck Norcutt
<chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Much of a cypress swamp is rather shallow water (often just 6-18" deep)
> and pretty densely covered with vegetation. Not suitable for gators who
> like deeper and more open water. You're not likely to see a gator in
> the swamp until the water opens out into deeper, open space often
> created by the gator himself and referred to as a "gator hole". As the
> swamp dries up in the dry season (now) the small fish and other water
> loving critters get forced into the hole as the only place where there
> may be water. The gator eats well then until his hole dries up. I
> won't likely see a gator unless I venture out into the hole or the area
> around the hole which I'm not likely to do... at least with just a 28mm
> lens. I might be under water by that time too. Might be 6 or 8 foot
> deep out there.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
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