Monday, June 22, 2009

"Gator Spotted At Medina River"

OK, I guess we're just going to have to get used to the fact that there are alligators all over San Antonio! Another one has been spotted on the far west side of town.
A San Antonio man said that he spotted a 9-foot-long alligator in the Medina River over the weekend.

Alfonso Hernandez said his sighting is no fish tale, it's the real thing.

For years, Hernandez has been coming out to the river not too far from Cagnon Road.

Hernandez said that he was able to take a picture of the gator with his camera phone.

"We've seen giant turtles. You see anything here in the river, but we never thought that we'd see an alligator in this part of the county," Hernandez said.
(from KSAT-12)

Cagnon Road is here:


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Earlier gator stuff here and here and here and here.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I remember back in the 1980s me and my friend used to go to the hill country every chance we could. One night while fishing near what later would be a gated area of the state park something pulled my spindle at the time i thought that it must have got caught in some under water branch. But after a few seconds later something pulled the fishing line down and then the small boat almost flip over and the spindle broke free. This happen around 1:a.m. this was the last time i fished at night.