Man almost attacked by alligator in Seven Seas Lagoon

[dkostel]

I have, on more than one occasion, been on the shores of Bay Lake to catch the sunrise and have seen people on a low flat boat with a long pole with a loop around the end. I always assumed it was some sort of gator patrol. I cannot imagine what else it would be used for?

 

[jeanigor]

So that's where my other croc went. In the alligator!

 

[kbelle8995]

Don't forget it's not just alligators and amebas but a lovely snake called a Water Moccasin. Trust me these snakes are extremely poisonous. And they caught one on the dis unplugged fishing trip on film.

 

[Cruella 66]

"We stay at Shades of Green across from the Poly alot. There's defintely alligators in their ponds and in the golf course ponds around Shades. When we were there in Oct. the front desk CM told us to be careful walking to the Poly. He said that there were known to be alligators in the trees along the path between the Poly and Shades. We walked the path on several occasions and never heard anything but I did stay very close to hubby"

Wow, now the gators are in the trees???

 

[nilla]

When I was there last October, our Bus Driver pointed one out to us in one of the Canals near the entrance to Coronado Springs. He also said he had seen one earlier in the day sunning itself off to the side of Oceola Parkway.

That's not the only danger lurking in Coronado's waters:

 

[FrostMommy]

We actually saw a little one in Magic Kingdom over in the Frontierland this past trip in October. We all stopped to look, and a few other people too, but I don't believe I got a picture.

 

[Tonka's Skipper]

Really?.......the guy hears hissing and then stops to take a video? Ron White is right..........you cannot fix stupid!

This is Florida.....there are millions of gators around and anyone with a little common sense would back off fast!

AKK

 

[kamik86]

Ok, know what? if I hear a hissing sound near the water (or even not near the water for that matter) I am not hanging around long enough to get a video of what was hissing at me!
The WISE ONE is right!!!!

I agree near water...

not near water depends on where I am... hearing a hiss in my house barely phases me anymore beyond looking to see which two cats are not getting along now.

However when I was in Alaska last May and we say a Grizzly the behavior of some people make me agree that many would do this. Some were inching closer and breaking off trying to get a better angle... Yeah I took pictures, but with my high zoom camera, in a group of about 8 or 9 (the smart ones) behind all the stupid ones that were getting closer. The best was the mother that was doing this for photos and not watching her 8 year old that was also starting to do the wandering off to angle thing... ONce the guides came down and realized there was a bear they put a stop to the idiots pretty quickly.

 

[SoCalTrojanSkip]

We were taking the rafts to Tom Sawyer's Island back in October and we saw a pretty good sized one just hanging out on the mainland side next to the dock.

That being said, I'm not sure there is such a thing as "almost attacked by an alligator". They strike me as more Yoda in their approach..."do or do not...there is no almost"

Or something like that...

 

[samsteele]

the behavior of some people

Years ago I was driving through Algonquin Provincial Park in the Fall, in central Ontario, when I came around the corner on the deserted highway and saw a rental car pulled over to the side of the road. In the distance, a man with a video camera was making his way through a marsh toward a very large bull moose. This was in the height of the fall rut. The moose had stopped eating and had lowered its head, just watching the human approach. Behind the man, trudged his wife through the knee deep water with a young child in tow and an infant strapped onto her chest in a baby sling. I pulled over and yelled at them to pls get back to the car, that it will kill you. The man kept moving forward with his eye to his camera. His wife turned to me and gave me a lovely salute. You know the kind. Sad that sometimes you can't save people from themselves. More sad that the animal is usually the one to pay in such a stupid, completely preventable encounter.

 

[SorcererHeidi]

Years ago I was driving through Algonquin Provincial Park in the Fall, in central Ontario, when I came around the corner on the deserted highway and saw a rental car pulled over to the side of the road. In the distance, a man with a video camera was making his way through a marsh toward a very large bull moose. This was in the height of the fall rut. The moose had stopped eating and had lowered its head, just watching the human approach. Behind the man, trudged his wife through the knee deep water with a young child in tow and an infant strapped onto her chest in a baby sling. I pulled over and yelled at them to pls get back to the car, that it will kill you. The man kept moving forward with his eye to his camera. His wife turned to me and gave me a lovely salute. You know the kind. Sad that sometimes you can't save people from themselves. More sad that the animal is usually the one to pay in such a stupid, completely preventable encounter.

Shows the utter arrogant stupidity of some of us "more highly evolved than animals" humans at times, Sam.

 

[theostwalts]

We actually saw a little one in Magic Kingdom over in the Frontierland this past trip in October. We all stopped to look, and a few other people too, but I don't believe I got a picture.

I wonder if this is the little guy you saw? We saw him from the wooden boardwalk cutting over to Frontierland. We were there in November, the week before Thanksgiving. In the picture he is in the back under the ferns and plants.

 

[goopysolelady]

November, 2015...Tom Sawyer Island...just AFTER DD's and DGD's left the island...

 

[Donna M]

Being from New Hampshire, I never knew alligators hissed. If I heard hissing I would stop and look around, but I wouldn't think to run away unless I actually saw something. I learned something valuable here!

I bet some Southerns if visiting the North in winter don't know how thick ice should be to be safe to walk on.

 

[DisneyKevin]

Alligators also bark..quite like a bullfrog.

They usually do this during motioning season.

This is when the move about the most.

 

[disneysteve]

Years ago, we were over at the Buena Vista Palace (I think that's what it was called) across from DTD. We heard a bit of a commotion and looked out to see a good size gator in the pond and someone on the patio tossing food to it. I just remember them throwing out a whole orange and the gator grabbing it.

 

[tiggergal15]

It's Florida people...Gators live here naturally..along with snakes,flamingos armadillos, ect . This is their world. It's hot,humid and rainy. Humans are invading their world...not them invading us....and fyi WDW was built on swampland..just be more aware that's all. Stay away from lakes,ponds,and shallow water you can't see the bottom of and you should be OK....keep you eyes peeled that's all.....

 

[McKelly]

About five years ago, we saw one at Coronado Springs. It was at least four feet.......I knew Disney relocated gators and it was time for them to move this one - it was big, maybe even longer than four feet. Anyway, it was in the water up by the food court. People were feeding it!! Oye. I was freaked out the rest of the vacation. I just couldn't relax anytime I was walking around the resort!

 

[SorcererHeidi]

About five years ago, we saw one at Coronado Springs. It was at least four feet.......I knew Disney relocated gators and it was time for them to move this one - it was big, maybe even longer than four feet. Anyway, it was in the water up by the food court. People were feeding it!! Oye. I was freaked out the rest of the vacation. I just couldn't relax anytime I was walking around the resort!

Sorry, but people are SOOOOO stupid - why would you feed an alligator for God's sake? And I would guess those same people would be HORRIFIED if the animal came up on tot he beach, chasing them for food, when in fact that's exactly what they are TRAINING it to do - depend on them for food? People are such idiots at times!! I did have a HUGE chuckle one time at Epcot - idiot was feeding the seagulls pretzels - later one of them "dive bombed" the person, and snatched it right out of their hands, scaring the H-E-double-hockey-sticks out of them!!!

 

[com_op_2000]

Sorry, but people are SOOOOO stupid - why would you feed an alligator for God's sake? And I would guess those same people would be HORRIFIED if the animal came up on tot he beach, chasing them for food, when in fact that's exactly what they are TRAINING it to do - depend on them for food? People are such idiots at times!! I did have a HUGE chuckle one time at Epcot - idiot was feeding the seagulls pretzels - later one of them "dive bombed" the person, and snatched it right out of their hands, scaring the H-E-double-hockey-sticks out of them!!!

That gator is dead. A fed gator is a dead gator, is the saying here in FL.
We were feeding turtles at BCV and up came a gator so we stopped but this gator had learnt to stay hidden until the food started falling around the turtles.
I have seen gators in WDW at:
Palm and Magnolia Golf courses.
Bay Lake while in a boat over past FWC.
Trumbo Canal between PO and DL and between OKW and DTD.
Be sure to watch out for those from UF they are the most dangerous. LOL!