just back from week one of three this summer in grayton, on saturday 6/9/07 around 0700 i happend to see a six to eight foot gator in western lake. I first noticed it in the middle of the lake and then it slowly swan over to the opposite back (the state park side) I have seen gators in eastern lake but this was my first in western. anybody else seen it?
alligator in western lake
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Let's hook it up with the Serpent of Oyster Lake:
that is a distinct possibility...the way things are going...
Jdarg says she saw about a 24 foot long gator in there, and a few months ago, I saw one which was about 4 ft long. That gator must be eating some big kids. Just wait until someone sees a gator in the outflow. 
Jdarg says she saw about a 24 foot long gator in there, and a few months ago, I saw one which was about 4 ft long. That gator must be eating some big kids. Just wait until someone sees a gator in the outflow.
:roll:
That outflow is gonna have to get a little water in it first.
Jennifer Steele
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I've been seeing them in Western Lake since as long ago as I can remember, and a friend recently saw one from our back yard in Grayton. I'm always relieved when I see one or hear of a sighting.
Alligators in Western Lake is nothing new - I know a little kid who lives near the walkway/pier who refers to the family's vacation house there as the "alligator house." In springtime the WC boathouse even tells folks to paddle out on the lake and not up into Watercolor because they're breeding.
Makes for an exciting story. A few weeks ago, we paddled "up into WaterColor," to where the canal ends, almost all the way to Hwy 395. Never saw a gator. Maybe the peeps at the WC Boathouse should give warnings that plastic is mating, because there is a fair amount of frisbees, plastic chairs, balls, etc "up in WaterColor."
We didn't see any that day at Western Lake as my mother was NOT about to go out of her way to meet a gator while in a kayak...........I got the idea of alligators running around out of her head for a couple days, then we ran into Elvis when we went golfing at Camp Creek!