Watch 12-foot alligator wade through lazy river at Illinois water park. ‘Vacation day’
An alligator who goes by “G” had a vacation day so fun he simply didn’t want it to end.
At 39 years old, “G” is a 300-pound, 12-foot long alligator who lives at Scovill Zoo in Decatur, Illinois.
While a “long-term” resident of the zoo, he’s never been able to submerge himself in “more than a few feet of water,” zookeepers said.
“His dedicated keepers have been looking for ways to enrich G’s life and provide more experiences for him, so they took him for a swim,” the zoo said in a Sept. 21 Facebook post.
After all the humans vacated Splash Cove water park for the summer, “G” got his chance to experience the lazy river.
You can get a glimpse of this alligator’s lazy river adventure in a 50-second video shared by the zoo.
“He loved freshening up on his swimming skills, floating in the river current, and let us know that he enjoyed his trip to the lazy river by refusing to leave,” Scovill Zoo said. “G finally decided to come out and then basked in the sun on the concrete deck for a few minutes before safely venturing back to his home at Scovill Zoo. We are pretty sure he had a big alligator smile and was loving life on his vacation day.”
The zoo hopes to make this an “annual field trip” between when the water park closes for summer and before the water is drained for the winter.
Decatur is about 40 miles east of Springfield.
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