Red Neck Alligator Hunt

"An airboat? I haven't even heard of an airboat before." This is what I said when I found out we were going ALLIGATOR hunting on some sort of a boat that goes through swamps.

Brandon's friend that took us on the air boat "Yea, it's pretty red neck! Only in Saint Cloud."

Apparently many of you have heard of or seen an airboat on tv, I never had though. This was a once in a lifetime experience for me!
This is how they roll. Brandon's brother on the front ready to catch alligators.

So we drove through this swampy lake full of frogs, weeds, bugs and it was pitch dark. You hold a spot light shine it around the whole time and you can see all the alligator's eyes glowing in the dark everywhere. It was the scariest/ funnest thing ever!!! They were EVERYWHERE!!

I was freaking out when they would just reach down and grab them from out of the water! What? Who does that? Brandon was trying to calm me down to take this picture. "Heidi, it's ok. Just feel the tail of it. The skin is so beautiful." I was so happy he said that because with all the excitement, I would have not even noticed the soft leather alligator skin that people pay a lot of money for.

So I find out after that this may or may not be legal thing to do. Then his brother who is a cop informs me that is the reason why he is there...in case fish and game come by! He knows them all :) So don't try this at home people!

Oddly enough I can now say that I went alligator hunting....and it was a blast!