Now that I have a child in school, spring break is a thing. So what better thing to do for spring break than go to Florida! This trip was more about doing stuff for the kids than photography but I did manage to squeeze in two mornings to photograph. Usually I try to do one place I know well where I can get some good bird/wildlife images and then try out another place that I haven’t been to before. Since I ran out of time, I opted to try the new place first. It ended up being so amazing I did both mornings that I had allotted for photography. I came across this alligator while walking along a boardwalk through a marsh. The gator was covered in vegetation and looked freaking awesome. The boardwalk already had me at an elevated position compared to the gator, so I sat down to get a lower perspective and photographed through the rails in order to get a more eye level angle. This ended up being one of my favorite images. The gator eventually swam under the boardwalk and as he swam along, most of the vegetation eventually slid off his back, so I’m glad to have seen this when I did. Below is a view of the alligator from a standing position.