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Heh, you ain't seen nothing till you take a Jetski down the Kissimmee River. South of second lock from Lake Kissimmee.
I have "We're gonna need a bigger boat" going through my head constantly.
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Saw the biggest, baddest gator in my. 61 years of Florida living there.
My buddy and I drew a hunt on a Management area on the Kissimmee River named Kicco.
Accessible only by boat at the time.
Being young and ambitious, we loaded bicycles into my antiquated 13 foot wood boat with its 5hp 1955 Johnson. to go have a look at the place prior to the hunt.
We chugged down river an hour, found the canal that marked the northern boundary of Kicco, ran up it a ways and beached the boat.
In the canal, in the weeds, spotted a heifer, 3-400 lb, bloated and bobbing in the weeds, wondered what had killed it.
Had a great day scouting, saw a lot of game, made it back to the boat at dark.
Chugging down the canal, we spot a big wake in the moonlight up ahead.
Neither of us uttered a word as we slowly overtook a giant Alligator swimming with that cow in his mouth.
I would swear to you he was longer than my boat.
Never were there two more relieved fellas than us when we had safely put that gator behind us .