Davis Bayou National Park

We found a nice little National park campground tucked away in the southern tip of Mississippi. Turns out Davis bayou is at one end of the longest national seashore in the USA. Who knew?

The park is small but quiet. There are not one, but two “gator ponds” along the trail that are supposed to have several juvenile alligators in them. At least that’s what the ranger claimed. We can’t verify that claim. Unless the gators were cleverly disguised as snapping turtles, there was no sign of them the couple times we walked by the ponds.

 

The ranger we talked to had some interesting info. Turns out that gators are rarely threatening to humans. Unless, of course, people have been feeding them. Generally, they try to stay away from humans. He did say that they are generally cannibalistic and eat young gators. So the young ones tend to leave home pretty quickly.

Definitely not a gator…

 

But if not…