Gator Huntin'

Yesterday was just your typical lazy Saturday afternoon, until our new friends Troy and Rebekah called and asked us if we wanted to hang out. We threw around a few ideas of things we could do, and settled on. . .

Gator Huntin'!

There have been rumors swirling among the soldiers that there is an alligator in a lake on base, namely Lake Eck, and that it sometimes comes out if you bait it with hot dogs. We set out to find out if the rumors were true.

We already had Ballpark Franks in our freezer, but I wouldn't let Todd waste such a delicacy on a wild goose chase. So we headed down to the commissary, grabbed some Bar S doggies out of the lunchmeat isle, and took off for the hunt.

Little did we know that we should have grabbed more than one package.

As we pulled up at the lake, I couldn't believe it- there was the alligator, right before our eyes! We jumped out of the car, and I grabbed the camera, but by the time I had unzipped the camera case, the others had realized that what we saw was actually just a log. Classic!

Alright, so it wasn't going to be quite as easy as we planned. We started to circle the lake on foot, watching for ripples in the water, movement, or any other clues. Half an hour later, we were resting on a bench in the shade. By this time, I had been stung three times by ferocious ants, my shirt was stuck to my back from the heat, and we were all trying not to be too disappointed that we weren't going to see an alligator after all.

Who was going to eat all those Bar S hotdogs? I wondered to myself. Not me!

We all stood up, consigned to the fact that we were going to go home without a sighting, when lo and behold . . .

Did we find a gator that day?
Maybe we did, maybe we didn't.
To find out the answer, click on the video Todd made today.