Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Gator

Lake Allatoona is a hydro power lake that laps at the base of Red Top Mountain in Emerson, Georgia. The lake fills in some very steep gradients in that mountainous foothill. The lake has a deceptively long shoreline because of the numerous fingers that run and and out of the steep grades.  It is not a bayou or lowland by any means. In short, this is no place for a gator. 

Yet on a hike down the old Chattanooga-to-Atlanta railbed, that's what Larsen and I saw. Two gators, in fact, each about three feet long. I took a video, but I'm afraid it has all of the clarity and demonstrative power of the Sasquatch photos. It might look to you like a big carp preambulating along the placid retention pond on the lee side of the rail bed.  I think it was a gator.


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