St. Augustine Alligator Farm

Today we went to the Alligator Farm -- WHAT A GREAT PLACE! We had so much fun & Mikey really enjoyed all the gators! It was amazing the amount of alligators and crocs they had in each exhibit. We even fed the gators in the swamp exhibit, which thrilled Mikey to death - he kept asking for more and more pellets. Honestly, I have never experienced such active gators in captivity - it was like the shows you see on TV - and nothing like the gators at the zoo!

The Gator Pit -- there were at least 30 gators in this giant pit and they were HUGE!!! The pictures definitely don't do them justice!



Brace yourselves for the fat preggo in this pic! :)


This is Maximo - he is FREAKIN' HUGE! As you can see that tooth is as big as two of Mikey's fingers. He is a saltwater croc that is 15 feet 3inches long and weighs 1,250 pounds. It was amazing the size of this guy!


These shots were taken while we were feeding the gators. I thought nothing of putting 25 cents into this gumball machine to get a handful of pellets that I thought would just float in the water and not interest the gators. I WAS SO WRONG. The gators love these things and boy they snap their mouths hard to catch them floating in the water. Mikey LOVED it. I even had to gather all my change and go ask a older couple near us for quarters so that we could get more pellets. The man was nice enough to give me all his quarters (which we used) and him and his wife came an enjoyed the show as Mikey and I threw pellets in the water.



And last is the "little guy" pit -- there were easily 50 gators and crocs mixed together in here. Guess once they get bigger they get moved into the "big guy" pit.


Thank you daddy for paying the outrageous entrance fee - we had such a great time watcing the gators!!!!