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rbowman

On 02/20/2018 11:17 AM, wrote:
You really don't run from an alligator. The motion attracts their
attention and they might chase that motion. Then can go from 0 to
around 15 MPH in a second so they are likely to catch you too.
Best is to walk slowly away, 90 degrees from where they are pointing.
They don't turn that well and if you can stay beside them while
getting away they usually give up. Every time I have seen one, pretty
common playing golf, I have just walked away without really arousing
their attention at all.

I was out at Flamingo absentmindedly watching an alligator sort of like
you'd watch a sunning turtle. A woman stopped and asked me what I was
looking at and I said "Oh, just that alligator over there." She was
rather irate when she said "Maybe it's not a big deal to you but it is
to me!"