We're anchored off Titusville for a couple days. Another bridge to walk over and get our 10K steps in.
At the foot of the bridge is the Pier220 restaurant with outdoor dining. The weather is about 15degrees warmer this week and just right for some beer and fish tacos on the deck.
We stopped at the restaurant after our walk, but noticed that it is actually a fairly short dinghy ride from our boat over to here. Would be a pretty high step to the fixed dock level though.
Just after dark we started hearing some very unusual sounds coming from under the boat. It took us quite a while to figure out they were coming from the water and not anything on our boat. The noises were "grunting" very similar to bullfrogs but we were thousands of yards from shore and no frogs out here.
The next day we asked in the marina what marine life was making those noises. "Alligators", the folks told us.
Sure enough, next day we saw this 5ft alligator swimming away from the marina along the shoreline. From the sounds we heard at anchor, there had to be 5-10 of them nearby our boat. They start grunting at sunset and grunt away until midnight or so. Very weird sounds that come right through the hull.
