St. Augustine Alligator Farm Worth the Visit

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This might be our 10th visit to Saint Augustine. It was our first visit to the Alligator Farm Zoological Park, 999 Anastasia Boulevard; we shouldn't have stayed away so long. Admission is on the pricey side ($21 each (with our AAA discount). Our advice would be to go early in the day, take in all the shows, and get your money's worth. We caught three shows - alligator feeding, a reptile show, and fauna of the rain forest. All were informative, lasted about 20 minutes and provided time after for Q & A and, except for the alligator show, some optional touching.

I think we stayed away because Alligator Farm's promotion seemed kind of hokey and "touristy" plus we are not particular fans of theme parks. We went to Ripley's, also in St. Augustine, one day because it was raining and we needed to kill time before our ride back to the RV Park (this is before we had a jeep). We felt soooooo ripped off that it has taken years of theme park recovery! Alligator Farm was worth it, but only after you're tired of the beautiful beaches, done the train tour, visited Flagler College and the Flagler Museum, stopped in at a few churches with Tiffany windows, climbed the lighthouse, taken a boat cruise, and strolled around in the old town.

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Photos

ALBINO GATER
There were two of these - both kept in the shade as their skin in very susceptible to sunburn!

BABY GATORS
These are yearlings.

Heres Your Rat Mr. Gator
This docent was well informed. He handled the gator feeding show and later on a reptile show! Cute and "Dundeeish!"

Gators
Hundreds of gators and a handful of crocodiles live here!

Gomek
When this giant Australian croc passed on...he was taxidermed and remains an attraction.

Green Tree Python
Kind of cute as long as he was behind glass!

High Ropes Course
Pretty thrilling on a high jungle rope bridge with all those gators & crocs below - looked fun...but not for us.

Comments

[D MJ Binkley]

Very cool
I've never seen one of these.

[Silver Back Cuda]

Albino Alligator
Actually there are two white alligators at Alligator Farm. They are kept separate - all alone each of them!

[Lauren Prock]

Wild
It's like Jack Hanna's Wild Countdown.

[Silver Back Cuda]

No Wrestling
Just glad no alligator wrestling - everyone - animals and people - treated nicely!