BUT THEN AGAIN

Besides the eagles and birdies on a golf course, I've also seen roadrunners, snakes, deer, turtles, fish, bears, coyotes, frogs, dogs, cats, hawks, heron, swans, iguanas, lizards, chickens, falcons, eagles(not the ones on a scorecard), and alligators. The strangest of all to me, are the alligators.

In Hilton Head, South Carolina, alligators populate the courses. Hit a ball over a hill and walk to it carefully, because a gator or two might be waiting. Not that they are that aggressive. But I wouldn't want to startle one.

Then the home owners whose houses border the courses are just strange to me. Why they would want to live that close to the gators? Several even had swimming pools, without fencing exposed to the gators. Nothing like going out back and finding an uninvited alligator or two poolside.

While bears and snakes may be scarier I'd have to say, the alligators would be my least favorite. But then again I'm reminded of a friend who played golf in Africa on a course that kept track of black panther sightings.