Biggest. Gator. Evar.

On the way home this past Sunday I spied the largest gator I have ever seen in North Carolina. The only problem with this sighting was the gator was in a location that would have been nearly impossible to photograph and to complicate matters further I would have to drive across the Alligator River bridge, turn around, the cross the bridge once again. Worst still there was a sailboat slowly making its way towards the draw bridge and I would have likely been stuck for 10-15 minutes on the bridge. So this gator remains unphotographed. But he was big. Really big. Nine feet is perhaps bordering on the edge of a "big fish story" but I think eight feet is an honest estimation of this gator's size.