The stress of the alligators is why they only use 1 per show (and each alligator only does 1 show). It's no different than taking your cat to the groomers - it's stressful and you 'force' your cat to do it, but it doesn't hurt them. The alligators are cared for, they're treated well, there isn't an issue. If the alligators really hated doing the shows - they wouldn't. They know the handlers (in your own words) and they trust the handlers not to hurt them.

@trvlnthru

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your thoughtful comments. We were unaware that the gators only get used on one show a day so that is good to hear. We tried to be pretty fair about the whole thing in our video. We mentioned (as you state) that the gators know their handlers - and we stated the gators seem to be willingly going along with parts of the show since there is no human who could make a full grown gator hold his mouth open if he didnt want to do so. I do like your comparison of taking cats to the groomer (or vet). You are right - it is very stressful and we do make our cat go. But we only do that because we think there is a benefit to the cat in doing so, even though one assumes the cat can't understand that. If someone was stressing out their cat just for entertainment and not for some good reason, that would likely irritate me. I kind of look at gator wrestling in that way. As we said in the video, the gators don't seem to be getting hurt physically but they are being stressed out for something that doesn't really benefit them. Add to that the fact that alligator wrestlers do occasionally get injured by gators if they decide to stop cooperating and I am just not sure it is worth it. We understand there are plenty of people who disagree though. I do hope the gators are being well treated and cared for (and didn't see anything that made me think otherwise). As we said in the video, while we found this show hard to watch, we loved everything else we experienced at Gatorland and would probably go again sometime... though we might skip the alligator wrestling show. Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts with us.

One of Central Florida’s oldest roadside attractions! We try to go about once a year during the Florida Residents specials. Great video thanks 🐊

@trvlnthru

Жыл бұрын

We were actually a bit surprised about how cool an experience it was. There was a lot to explore at Gatorland. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!

@TravelTourTaste

Жыл бұрын

I would love to live in florida one day.

OMG... the baby racoon was so cute... Mr. Gator was literally just waiting for him to find a way in... ha ha... I'm pretty sure the last time we were there (a long time ago), they were just building the train and there was no water play area or zip line area... or maybe they were building the trail for the stomping gator truck thing... none of these were there at the time... the boardwalk areas look awesome... I agree with you fully about the wrestling... not trained... not enjoying participating, just being forced for our pleasure... I don't like it... love the information for sure... I think sometimes people just don't care so much about the less 'cute and fuzzy' critters... great overview guys...thank you!

@trvlnthru

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, that raccoon probably doesn’t realize how lucky it is that the door was locked to the gator enclosure. The place has really been built up over the years. We loved seeing the gators and other animals up close. Everything except the gator wrestling. Thanks for watching and commenting!

We enjoyed your tour of Gatorland, Jack and Alice. It's a place we've often thought about visiting over the years, but never have. We also learned something because we've never heard of Leucism before. I had to stop and conduct extensive research (I googled it! 🤣🤣) to find out the difference between leucism and albino. Now I know! (had I not paused I would have found out easier!) I understand your feelings, but since Steve Irwin, even before, I think that's what many folks want to see. It raises money for the rescue cause, Gatorland is involved with. So does the gift shop! The sign at the end was hilarious. Sad, but I think some folks need a reminder! Thanks for bringing us along.

Pretty awesome trip you had. We have been here a few times with the kids and they loved the park. Especially the petting zoo and the bird feeding. Thanks for sharing your visit even though some of it was unsettling for you. Take care and have a nice day.

What an. Amazing place... Thanks for sharing.. New frnd here sending love and support

Sledgehammered that like button sharing out full watch stay safe and blessed

@trvlnthru

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching - and liking - and taking time to leave a comment. We always appreciate your support!

So mutch aligators!!!!!! Beautiful birds !!! Wow snakes !!!!! Nice video ,i enjoyed it!!!! Have a great day 😘

@trvlnthru

Жыл бұрын

We enjoyed seeing all of these animals up close. Thanks for watching and commenting!

I absolutely loved the video! It was truly wonderful and I'm giving it a thumbs up. The filmed walking tour at Gatorland was amazing and provided us with a beautiful experience. Thank you for sharing it with us. I hope you have a great weekend and send you my friendly greetings!

@trvlnthru

Жыл бұрын

We had a great time seeing the animals of Gatorland. Thanks you so much for your kind words. We appreciate your support! We hope you are having a great weekend as well.

Thank you for Sharing my friend......

Wow amazing place I like the place very nice thank you so much for sharing this wonderful vedio be safe and stay connected fullpackage more power to your channel god bless 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️

This is so fun!! Gatorland was THE FIRST video I made arriving in Florida from Sedona. I had a neighbor in AZ who owned a capybara, lol! 😂 I agree - I don’t like seeing them sitting on the gators. I understand your feelings - I sometimes think animals have more common sense than humans. I recently saw a lady w her child feeding a shark a chicken and they both fell in the water. Good grief. I do like their gift shop. All the best in 2023!!! 🎉

Cool! I didn't know this Gatorland park existed 🙂Plenty of alligators you can see here! Lots of different animals too, kids would love it here. That's awesome to see white animals, albino alligators ohhh.. fun alligator show too. I just remember those old clips where an alligator bit on someone's head on a show hehe..

I love florida so much and can't wait to go back again. Happy New year 🎉 ✨️

Gatorland is great! Thank you for sharing!

Gatorland is awesome. This was one of the places I visited in FL. Super cool. LIKE 36. 👍👍👍👍

So great gators and birds get to hang out. Those wild birds kind of sound like seagulls. Amazing to see so many gators in one place and sounds like so much to do. Thanks for taking us along🤠

@TravelTourTaste

Жыл бұрын

It really did look interesting x

Military (retired, veterans, active duty) get in free and there is usually a 50% discount for Florida residents. The zip line and other activities do cost extra but the shows are free.

@trvlnthru

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the added info! We enjoyed our visit to Gatorland.

Thanks for the tips my friend and enjoy your day 😀👍🏻

@trvlnthru

Жыл бұрын

We had a great visit to Gatorland. Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment!

what a beautiful place my friend

@trvlnthru

Жыл бұрын

It really was! Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment!

The last time I was down here a Lady (teacher) from a local school grabbed my son's arm and moved him out of the way. We came after her like crazy. We where on vacation and not part of the school tour she was doing. I remember this place very much.

@trvlnthru

Жыл бұрын

LOL. That is quite a memory. I suppose it is hard to keep track of large herds of kids on a field trip. But one should definitely make sure the kid whose arm they are grabbing is one from the group before the grabbing begins. Hope you also had some enjoyable memories of Gatorland too. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment!

I have visited this park many years age. Great seeing it again. I have forgotten some of the park. So many great views and nice narration and information. I am also not so fond of the alligator wrestling. Thanks for this great tour and have a wonderful week.

Nice place thanks for sharing.

@trvlnthru

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching. We are glad you enjoyed our tour of Gatorland!

Nice video! Love this!

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Aww that raccoon trying to grit in was adorable. Poor thing had no idea. We still haven’t been to gator land yet. 🤗❤️Jenn

I've heard about this place but I've never actually visited. Thanks for the great walkthrough!

@trvlnthru

Жыл бұрын

We also had spent years hearing about it and never going. We were actually pleasantly surprised with how much we enjoyed it. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!

We have been there too many times to count! We took our boys when they were little and we have also taken our grandkids. That’s the first place we ever ate gator.

@trvlnthru

Жыл бұрын

We have driven by it numerous times and weren't sure we wanted to go. But we had an afternoon off on the most recent trip and really enjoyed it overall. We were glad we went!

@RetiredLovingIt

Жыл бұрын

@@trvlnthru it’s still one of our favorite places to go. I guess it brings back a lot of memories when our kids were little

Hey friends, the last time we went to Gatorland was many years ago, I'm really enjoying seeing it again in the safety of my home without so many gators surrounding me on your upload, 😆. Love that they have a train ride 😊 . Ain't No Way I'm taking a zipline, especially in Gatorlamd, lol. Great Tour of Gator land, hope your week is off to a Great Start. Ya, I'm not for the last show either.

Very good crocodile breeding is suitable for educational tourism. Thank you for sharing the video, good luck 👍🙏🥰

I'll pass on those rattlesnakes! The night tour sounds like quite a bit of fun and would love to see all those eyes.

Impressive video. 👍 Have a great Sunday.🔆

Wow! Such an awesome and interesting place with many Alligators. Thank you for sharing your wonderful video and for giving me a very enjoyable virtual tour. Watching from the Philippines. Have a great day.

Those capybara are like distant cousins who you don't want to acknowledge. 😬⚠️😁

@WaysideWade

Жыл бұрын

Overly exploitive there with the wrestling and photo ops...🛡️

Looks like fun! That little raccoon was so cute trying to get in.

@trvlnthru

Жыл бұрын

That little raccoon was adorable. It is probably in his best interest that he couldn't get into the alligator enclosure though. LOL. Gatorland was a lot of fun overall. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!

Neat and unique aviary at 2:00. I love the goats. Wow the raccoon at 5:10. wHOA gatorbites, eat the animals that you just saw!?!? Imagine the wood railing breaking at 9:41 😵😵😹😹. I agree the gator wrestling show looks a bit cruel. 👍👍

Been meaning to try here for a while and just never have. Can definitely understand about the wrestling deal!

@trvlnthru

Жыл бұрын

It is a really cool place to check out actually. But, yeah, we’d pass on watching more alligator wrestling. Thanks for watching and commenting!

Please, birds! You can steal my food! Just please stay away from those gators! Loved the giant poo eating rodents! Thr racoon was adorable! Thank goodness for the fence though. I definitely did not expect this place to be as big as it was. Cool that it has a train & zip lines too, but I'd pass that and the monster truck ride. The gator rasslin wouldn't really be my thing wither. I doubt the gator enjoys being wrestled and there definitely is a risk factor for the guy's safety. I'm glad you were able to take the bad with the good and sum it all up to a day well spent. I'm fascinated with alligators, mainly out of fear though. They terrify me, but are amazing creatures and it's always fun to see them up close, safely in a place like this.

@trvlnthru

Жыл бұрын

The giant poop eating rodents were something to behold. As were the food thieving birds. But overall, with the exception of the gator wrestling, we found a lot to explore and enjoy here. We really were expecting a place about a fourth of this size with just alligators to look at - and we knew about the alligator wrestling show. So we didn't think this was going to be a place we could recommend. But it turned out to be fun and we do recommend it - even if we wish they would find another way to show off their gators rather than wrestling.

The birds were beautiful. We love flamingos too! Lots of animals here. I didn't know Gatorland was so big! I thought the 2nd show was crazy. Why in the world would anyone want to put their face that close to a gator's mouth. I'm sure they will take a chunk out of your finger and more! Thanks for sharing.

@trvlnthru

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, gator wrestling does seem like a very dangerous pursuit. I am surprised Gatorland’s insurance company allows it. LOL. But it really was big and had a lot of fun areas to explore. Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment!

This looks like a cool place to visit. I'm not sure about the Gator show either. We saw one like it in Miami.

Hey Alice and Jack, sorry I am so far behind, we took some well needed time off during the Christmas season :) I have lived in FL my whole life and have never been to Gatorland, lol :) This looked like such a fun park! My kids love capybaras right now, lol, eww they eat their own poo, nasty, lol. I never tire of seeing gators, love eating them too ;) The leucistic one is neat, never heard of those kind! Great share, loved all the info you provided about the prices, the zip line, etc. Sorry you didn't care for the gator show, but glad you would visit it again. Makes it sound worth going too :) Hope your having a great new years so far!!

we have not done Gatorland. It looks interesting, Some cool footage of all the animals.

Erm ..capybara who eat poo, yikes!! 😂 we’ve never been super keen on visiting Gatorland. The birds are pretty though! There are a lot more animals there than I expected! Thanks for bringing us along!

Really interesting sharing ✨️😊❤️

We did this for the first time and really enjoyed it, for what it was.🐸

Looks like a fun place to visit 😎👍

Well that show is the final confirmation that I won't be going. Imagine if SeaWorld treated their dolphins in that way. Chasing them around the pool, dragging them up on land by their tails, provoking them to bite, sitting on them, taping their jaws shut, and twisting their heads around. Steve Irwin knew how to do shows with crocodilians without abusing or disrespecting them. Of course the sand is not painful, they're covered in armor, but it's highly stressful for them to be chased around and manhandled in that way. The fact that it happens regularly doesn't make it better, it just means stress is more regular.

That was such a good place to spend 4 hours guys. Sooo many alligators and so close up to you all ! Had to laugh at those thieving birds laying in wait for any kind of animal or human food 🤭 we have seagulls here that do that ! I loved that there were so many other birds like the parrots, flamingos, emus and especially the cute budgies which we grew up with and adore. The large rodents living with the flamingoes surprised me though, I don't like what they eat haha . But then there were goats and snakes and crocodiles too and also a racoon that was trying to get in to this paradise land ! Alice I wondered why you avoided the zip wire over the swamp of crocodiles and alligators 🤔 😃 This was brilliant but i had to agree with you over the wrestling with the alligators, that seemed sad . Loved this :) ~ Anna 👍

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I’ve always enjoyed Gatorland. I think it’s a hidden gem a lot of people skip!

@trvlnthru

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. We skipped it for years and it ended up being a lot bigger and a lot more interesting and entertaining than we thought it would be! By the way… we have missed seeing your videos lately. Are you posting somewhere else or have you just been too busy to post lately? Whatever the case, hope you are both well!

That is crazy to see so many gators in one place! And I'm sorry no way I'm going on a zip live over gator infested land LOL!!! Never knew there were white gators! Cool and scary video!

Hey Pearl was so happy you liked her restaurant. 🤣

Hey guys! Such an unusual place. They do have a lot of neat animals! The zipline sounds like a bad idea. 😂 I don't mind looking at alligators, but they scare me! Such strange shows! They both seem like a bad idea. I once held the tail of an alligator when I was in Ghana. His mouth was not taped shut. 😳 This was interesting to see!! Thanks for the tour!

What a place, amazing 🤩🤩🤩, 🔔🙏

Looks like a fun placw

@trvlnthru

Жыл бұрын

It really was a fun place to spend the afternoon with some up close look at some animals. Thanks for watching and commenting!

An interesting attraction but one where I would also be uncomfortable with the "shows". We have enjoyed seeing alligators in the State and National parks. We Have a great 2023.

My kids MIGHT like this place, but overall, it kind of freaks me out!

@trvlnthru

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I get it. We passed this place on the road in Orlando many times over the years and never went because we didn't think it would be our scene. We were pleasantly surprised with most of it though. Just being able to see the gators, and other animals up close was great. Obviously, we ended up not enjoying gator wrestling at all though. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment!

Wow gator galore 😁

Our boys loved the gator wrestling. In fact one of them said he was gonna be a gator wrestler when he grew up. 😂🤣 Of course he didn’t though. No zip line for us either 🤣😂

@trvlnthru

Жыл бұрын

I am not sure there are many opportunities for career advancement in the gator wrestler field. So maybe it is good he didn't grow up to be a gator wrestliner. LOL. Yeah, I don't want to do a regular zip line. Then you put a bunch of gators under it? Never. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!

@RetiredLovingIt

Жыл бұрын

@@trvlnthru 😂🤣 yep we’re glad he chose the computer field and not gator wrestling 🤣😂

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@trvlnthru

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, and for taking the time to Like and Comment!

@V.W.A

Жыл бұрын

@trvln_thru easy to do when you are awesome people making awesome content.

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Oh neat! I really want to go there one day. Agree, not a fan of wrestling animals of any kind.

@trvlnthru

Жыл бұрын

I think you would enjoy it. There was a lot to do and see here. But yeah - skip the gator wrestling. Thanks so much for watching and for taking the time to comment!

I didn’t know they had so many other animals and that Capybara eat their own poop 🤮! I can see the difficulty watching the last show! We have only done the Gator golf in Florida and we did feed the baby gators there!

I feel going to these old attractions is for the history of the place itself. Guess they're bound to have their down side.

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like 31 like your video so much

I agree with your take. Overall it's a pretty cool place but they need to do away with the wrestling.

WOW! It is definitely more than just gators, but man are there a ton of gators. Those Capybara rodents are huge. Not a fan of snakes. The water park and zip tie look fun if you have kids. I hate it when they have so many extra cost stuff unless the fees are within reason. Those albino-ish gators are interesting. I couldn't spell the other. 😂😂. Yeah, some of the shows don't sound like they were done in good taste, but it does sound like you had a good time.

Can you skip the wrestling show?

Sounds like you're an animal rights activist by your comments about the gator wrestling. Those comments ruined an otherwise enjoyable video.

@trvlnthru

5 ай бұрын

I suppose different people like different things. Thanks for watching our video! We are glad you found it to be otherwise enjoyable.

Those birds could be a bonus meal for the alligators. Love the Emus. Pretty Flamingo. Those Capybara look like huge guinea pigs. UGH what disgusting habits they have! I would definitely pay $10 for a capybara hands on experience. Love the hands on Petty enclosure. How cute is that Racoon trying to get in. 🦝 I bet it was disappointed. I have eaten Crocodile meat, I suppose there would not be much difference. 11:08 you cannot do this with a Salt Water Crocodile, I have never seen this act done. He would have become a meal ticket. Great day out for all ages. Seemed like there was more to love than hate.

Just waiting there for a snack. 🦝 🧱🐊