Alligator in Gainesville, Florida (IMAGE)

Virginia Tech

Alligator in Gainesville, Florida

Caption

A setting sun paints a stand of live oaks a fiery orange, which dapples on the water of Alachua Sink in Paynes Prairie State Park in Gainesville, Florida. There alligators congregate by the dozens to take advantage of the large concentrations of fish.

Credit

Photo by Mac Stone, a National Geographic Explorer and a 2006 Virginia Tech graduate in Spanish and international studies.

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