Alligator Farm | Must See & Do, Tips for Visiting, & More!

Hey everybody! Welcome to the Waldock Way. I'm Jessica. I'm Emily. I'm Kevin. And today's video is a learning on location. It is homeschool day at the alligator farm in St. Augustine, Florida, so we are going to head there to learn more about alligators as well as pollinators because that is the theme of their homeschool day. We have about an hour and a half drive ahead of us, so let's get Welcome to the alligator farm! How do you know that? Because the alligator has a shorter tail. This one is the crocodile. How do you know that? Because the crocodile has a longer tail. So we had a blast at the alligator farm. Did y'all have fun? Oh yeah, definitely. Okay, so we are going to each tell you something that we learned. Emily, you want to start? Yes, please. What did you learn? I learned that the Deinosuchus is a relative of an alligator. Very cool. That is really cool. All right, babe, what did you learn? Oh, I just learned some basics. I thought I'd pass them along. One thing being that alligators and crocodiles differ and it's very noticeable in the shape of their head and their jaws. The crocodile is a v-shape and an alligator is a u-shape. That's pretty interesting. It makes it easier to find. It does, and some have very long stretched out v's too, don't they? Yeah, they do. What was your favorite? So my favorite was the albino, which looks like a white alligator obviously because it's lack of pigment, but what I learned about them, because every time we've gone previously they've just been sleeping, so I learned that their eyes are actually just as white as their skin. There's no pigment to their eyes either because this time we were able to catch one moving around, so that was pretty cool. Yeah, they were pretty impressive. Yeah, they were the best. I also loved those. Yeah, well they're the most unique I think. I mean there were some pretty unique ones though. Speaking of which, what was your favorite? Do you have a favorite? I do. My favorite was the... I really like... Was it the Indian one that had the funny nose? Well, I really liked that I could see the Komodo dragons. Yeah, and the cool thing is you had to like go down and look into the den to see it. Yeah, they were hiding in the bay. So what was your favorite? I might have to stay with Maximo, one of the biggest crocodiles that they ever had. No longer with us, but no. Maximo is still with us. He's the one we viewed underwater. It's go Maximo underwater with us. That's the one. Yeah, he's like 17. He was like 17 foot long. He was huge, so Emily has a picture in front of him, which we will insert right here for you guys. It's him stuffed obviously, but he was like 17 foot and then I think Maximo is 15 foot, so just yeah just shy of that. I think my favorite on the opposite end of the GoMec and Maximo giant was the Johnston crocodile and I don't know if they probably get bigger than that, but it was like it was like two or three inches. I was like, oh I want to take him home for a pet. And it had like a weird nose. It did. It had a really, really long skinny. Thin, thin, thin nose. It was pretty cool though, wasn't it? I can imagine he eats really little fish. Yeah, he eats really little food. And the snout kind of looked like a saltfish snout. Yeah, that's what it looked like. I can say that. Yeah. All right you guys, well if you ever happen to find yourself in the St. Augustine, Florida area, we highly recommend that you swing by the Alligator Farm. Definitely. Yes.