The last time we were in Kiawah (just up the road from Seabrook), there were gators all over the place. My first husband having come from St Augustine, Florida, I know enough about the South to know that wherever there's still, warm water, you might encounter a gator. Like in the ditch directly in front of my mother-in-law's house. When visiting her, I lived in constant fear that one would rise up out of the toilet while I was using it. These kinds of fears, to which I gave frequent voice, I'm afraid branded me as a "city woman," a not-flattering descriptor from which I never recovered in all 24 years of that marriage.
Anyway, there are alligators all over the place on Johns Island, home to Kiawah and Seabrook. So my question is: if I let my scrappy little goldendoodle out into the yard to romp and play in the warm sunshine, will I have to helicopter over her to ward off the gators? Or are January and February too cold for the gators, even in South Carolina? Fear of alligator encounters is not something I've had to deal with here in Bmore.....and the rats at least run away.....
