Living here in Florida, alligators are common in even the smallest bodies of water. Never, ever go near wilderness water that is more than an inch deep.....................and even then watch out at all times..................
That Disney lagoon is a magnet for those gators. The entire park sits on what was previously their habitat....a swamp, right?
We have gators, here in SE TX, in our golf course ponds! They will find murky water, and settle right in. We had neighbors who live on a creek and were having issues with their family pets missing. They kept worrying that it would be a child, next. The dads trapped the gator, but that was one of how many?
Disney is supposed to be trapping the gators over 4’. This one - and the one that chased the Brit family, recently were over 4’.
So sad. I just cannot imagine.
a tragedy for sure..once upon a time I was eating lunch in my car when a 6 to 7 foot gator came out of the nearby water looking for a sandwich..I got the heck out of there.
While your points are well taken, the Seven Seas Lagoon at the Grand Floridian Resort is no reasonable person’s idea of “wilderness water.” Many (not you) are casting nasty aspersions on these parents that are frankly repugnant. I guess it’s a human reaction, to think “we” would somehow always be able to avoid tragedies that befall “other people.”