This is not a good sign ....

[OrlandoTopDawg]

PHOTOS | Alligator swims off Panama City beach
11Alive Staff, WXIA 9:45 p.m. EDT March 23, 2015

(Photo: Donna Hatcher)

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. -- An alligator caused quite a commotion at a popular spot in Panama City Beach on Monday.

According to the NBC affiliate WJHG, officials cleared the water at a beach near Splash Resort around 1 p.m. after the alligator was spotted swimming in the Gulf. Witnesses said the alligator was between six and eight feet long.

Alligators average between 6 and 12 feet depending on the sex. They can only tolerate salt water for a short period of time because they do not have salt glands, WJHG said.

Officials tried to catch the gator using jet skis and fishing robs, but it was unclear if they were successful.

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[McDonoughDawg]

Saw that on the facebooks....glad it's on the gulf..

F the gulf.

 

[JC-DAWG83]

I've seen them in the Atlantic, saw a big one on the beach at..

Daufuskie Island a few summers ago. This one was about 10 ft long. A fishing guide told me they get caught in the tide and swept out and swim up on the beach to get back to a pond.

 

[Koogan]

They get in the tidal pools down at Fripp sometimes..

...and some guy found 2, a 12 footer and a 10 footer, in his garage one day.

 

[redclayhound]

There are gators living in the saltwater marshes between Sapelo

and Blackbeard Islands off the coast of Georgia........I've always heard the same thing: that gators can't survive in salt water.......but I'm here to tell you there's a healthy population of them in that saltwater habitat..............

 

[hotdawg80]

They are able to adapt and survive brackish water; I have seen a lot

just inside Gould's inlet here on SSI and they occasionally swim out to the ocean to feed and hurry back