About two weeks ago in mid-August, a boater who is a member of the Greater Houston Rowing Club had an alligator take a bite of his boat. And two weeks after that, another boater had a first-hand gator encounter.
Dee Conners is president of the Greater Houston Rowing Club and couldn’t believe what she saw, “I’ve been rowing there over 20 years, and this is the first time there’s ever been a gator attack.”
She says the second rower wasn’t even phased and they are now both back on the water rowing as usual. Conners says as soon as she saw those bite marks on the boat, she called First Colony Community Services to see what could be done. First Colony Community Services owns the Greater Houston Rowing Club boat house.Executive Director, Jack Molho says of course they wanted to do what they could to prevent this from happening again.
But other avid boaters like Jimmy Mooney say even as the trappers work to capture the gators, he continues to see them a lot more frequently.Mooney has noticed a lot of bushes and trees cleared out along the shore which he thinks may be a reason they are emerging and acting more aggressively.
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