Hundreds of ALIGATORS | Nights in the Okefenokee

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]Hey guys, we got an adventure for y'all today. Y'all come on with us into Minnie's Lake.

[00:00:06]We going to canoe through hundreds of gators and Tina's going to put out a little scream for y'all. So, y'all come along for a little adventure.

[00:00:15]>> No, Rodney. No.

[00:00:18]No. Why?

[00:00:32]He's right here. I mean, like I'm not feeling good. Oh my All right. Mama went and parked the truck.

[00:01:22]We got everything loaded up and we're headed out for two nights in the Yoki Pinocchi. First night at Minnie's Lake and second night at Mixon's hammock.

[00:01:36]Hey, mama.

[00:01:38]So, we're going to go have us a good time. We'll see y'all in a little bit.

[00:01:41]Come on along.

[00:02:31]Come on.

[00:02:36]Come on.

[00:03:34]Look at that.

[00:03:44]>> Wow, there's one. Please, please go under.

[00:03:53]Jesus. Jesus. Jesus.

[00:03:58]>> Yeah, honey. I don't want to go. I I know. But lift up. Jesus.

[00:04:06]Holy moly. This has never been like this. This is Yeah, they're everywhere. Everywhere.

[00:04:42]Yeah, golf.

[00:06:05]Don't you get out.

[00:06:55]Woohoo.

[00:06:58]Come on.

[00:07:19]Woo! She made it.

[00:07:30]Mama said I turn around. I ain't getting out.

[00:07:44]>> Oh my god. Look at him, mama.

[00:07:47]Come on. Look at him in front of us.

[00:07:50]>> No. No.

[00:07:53]No.

[00:08:20]Hi.

[00:09:19]Oh my gosh, baby.

[00:09:22]>> Oh my gosh, baby.

[00:09:26]Go. Oh my lord. It's like tag of the gators.

[00:09:37]Um, no, Rodney. No, no.

[00:10:03]Oh my god, they're jumping.

[00:10:08]Why?

[00:10:21]He's right here. I mean, like, I'm not feeling good. Oh my god, I'm not feeling good.

[00:10:50]Excuse me. Excuse me, guys.

[00:11:08]Do you see him jumping?

[00:11:23]Oh, they're even coming out at us.

[00:11:30]>> What was that?

[00:12:06]I don't even see my paddle.

[00:12:44]Oh gosh. Film home. Film home.

[00:12:52]No.

[00:12:55]Okay. Go over this way. You got to get me up there.

[00:13:00]I'm not I'm not getting this water. I'm not doing it.

[00:13:04]I'm not getting in this water m just I can't wait to see.

[00:13:55]All right, guys. We're here. Minnie's Lake.

[00:13:59]There's Tina. Hi.

[00:14:03]>> Last time we was here, water was up to the bottom deck, bottom steps.

[00:14:16]We got one big gator, two big gators, three big gators coming to visit us.

[00:14:21]So, I'm sure it'll get interesting around here about dark time. Four big gators, five big gators, six big gators.

[00:14:28]They're just doing a pray by We might be at their afternoon playground. Yeah.

[00:15:29]Honey, >> what?

[00:15:36]The thingies that go in here, >> the tempo's in the bag. You put them in the bag last time when we packed up.

[00:15:46]>> We said we do it when we got home. Put them in the baggie and put them in one of the bags. And we said we put together the same when we got home.

[00:15:56]>> They're at home.

[00:16:02]I didn't I separate.

[00:16:06]Push in bag.

[00:16:15]>> And another bag at the house. That's all we got. That bag right there.

[00:16:21]That's a sleeping bag.

[00:16:26]Oh my goodness.

[00:16:37]Got her cut some trees.

[00:16:43]>> I got some paracord.

[00:16:49]>> We'll figure something out.

[00:16:52]>> We can string it up.

[00:16:59]>> Did y'all just hear that? Guess what?

[00:17:03]We left the tent poles at the house.

[00:17:06]I thought they was in the tent bag. We didn't put them in there when we camped last for two weekends ago on the St. Mary's. So, we don't have no tent poles.

[00:17:17]We might sleep under We ain't under the star. We got a roof. So, don't even really need a tent.

[00:17:25]>> It's got center feet.

[00:17:27]>> We'll figure it out.

[00:17:30]We'll figure it out.

[00:17:46]I need to get right up there.

[00:17:49]I'm going have to move it right here.

[00:17:52]Right here. No, we're going have to do it right there.

[00:17:55]>> I'm going have to go over that.

[00:18:12]You want me to um put this in there so it flops up some so you can see the shape of it? Right now it just looks like >> Yeah. Do that.

[00:18:24]>> It looks like a mess.

[00:18:38]about heat.

[00:19:34]What do you think about that, guys?

[00:19:36]A little backwoods ingenuity improvising.

[00:19:45]All right, Tinky climbing it. Let's see.

[00:19:48]We got a floating swing bed.

[00:19:56]I think it'll be perfect, mama.

[00:20:02]Now, guys, that's what you call Making do with what you got to do.

[00:20:10]>> Not getting mad. Just >> do it.

[00:20:18]>> The look on your face.

[00:20:20]>> I'm sure the look on my face was pretty mad.

[00:20:24]>> I think this was fun. You made me go through all the alligators. I made you do this.

[00:20:29]>> Yeah, exactly.

[00:20:32]It's 2:00, guys. We got 5 hours, 6 hours till dark.

[00:20:38]>> Tina don't want to go back through the alligators to go fishing.

[00:20:46]>> The plane. The plane.

[00:20:57]>> I don't know if y'all can see it.

[00:20:58]There's a plane out there.

[00:21:02]Woohoo!

[00:21:07]Whoa!

[00:21:12]Wow!

[00:21:44]We got some Uncle Ben's fried rice with peas and carrots.

[00:21:50]We'll have that with some chicken.

[00:22:58]Looks pretty good.

[00:23:06]Dear Lord, thank you for this wonderful day, Lord. Thank you for everything you do for us, Lord. Thank you for getting us through that swarm of alligators.

[00:23:12]Lord, we just ask that they not be there tomorrow when we head out, Lord, if you can help us with that.

[00:23:19]Lord, we thank you for your creations and everything you do for us, Lord. And I just ask that you just bless over this food, Lord, and watch over us tonight and get us out safely tomorrow. Your name we pray. Amen.

[00:23:28]>> Amen.

[00:23:34]>> Last minute change of plan.

[00:23:53]I'm sure it's coming.

[00:23:56]>> They look ready, guys.

[00:23:58]Little impromptu fish bait for supper.

[00:24:07]I'm actually glad the fish wasn't biting. That's pretty good.

[00:24:13]Or there wasn't enough water to catch fish in.

[00:24:18]Maybe tomorrow night.

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[00:25:04]>> We thank y'all very much for what y'all have already done and everything y'all do for us already.

[00:25:15]It's been an amazing journey so far.

[00:25:17]>> Been a very amazing journey.

[00:25:24]>> Little scary one today.

[00:25:28]>> I will have to say today was a little nerve-wracking. I know Tina was Tina was holding her own up front. them gators was very them gators was within them big gators 8 10 12t gators was within two foot a foot of that front of that canoe where she was at. I actually hit one with the trolling motor and actually felt the bottom where one hit the bottom of the canoe or one or two three hit the bottom of the canoe when we was in that bad section where there was all that pretty nerve-wracking.

[00:26:04]My hand was shaking pretty hard right there trying to hold on to that troll motor and keep it keep us heading out of there.

[00:26:38]All right, guys. It's pretty getting pretty close to dark. I'm going to walk down here and show you all the gator's eyes. There's a little one right there.

[00:26:47]He's about 4 and 1/2t long.

[00:26:52]Come on with me.

[00:26:57]Water moccasins.

[00:26:59]mouths.

[00:27:01]I said look out for water moccasins.

[00:27:05]All right, guys. We going get up here.

[00:27:07]We going try to count the eyes.

[00:27:10]See how many we see here.

[00:27:16]All right, y'all. Ready?

[00:27:20]Let's see what we count.

[00:27:22]One down there.

[00:27:25]One.

[00:27:27]There's two.

[00:27:30]There's three.

[00:27:32]Four.

[00:27:36]There's five.

[00:27:41]Six.

[00:27:43]There's number seven.

[00:27:46]There's number eight.

[00:27:50]Number nine. Number 10. 11.

[00:27:55]12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 2 3 4 5 26.

[00:28:17]So y'all see moving pretty good.

[00:28:21]Let's count them again one more time.

[00:28:24]One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. 1 2 3 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 33 of them back around.

[00:29:08]So you'll see plenty of gators.

[00:29:13]Plenty of gators.

[00:29:16]Look right over there. That's freaking All right, guys. We are in the tent and headed to sleep. It's about 900 p.m. We hope to see y'all at 9:00 a.m. Y'all have a good one and remember where the map ends, the wild begins.

[00:29:32]Stay rugged.

[00:29:56]Heat. Heat.

[00:30:05]Yeah.

[00:30:25]Heat.

[00:30:39]Morning guys. We are up in them probably about seven birds been awake about an hour just laying here to the nature for the morning wake up about to get up and get going for the day. We ought to be So guys, guess What I did, I left breakfast. I left my eggs in the freezer. My frozen eggs are in the freezer.

[00:31:58]I do got some corn beef hats, but I think I'm going to just settle for a little omega3, a beef stick, and some pork with my protein shake this morning.

[00:32:19]I actually left that with the tent poles and all that. My daughter's actually going to come up drive up today and drop them off for us at the truck cuz we got to go back that way to get to Mixie's hammock. So, she's going to drop that off. T some bread. We forgot bread. We can't eat our peanut butter and jelly sandwich today cuz we don't got any bread.

[00:32:41]So, she's going to bring that for us and she's going to bring me breakfast so I can have breakfast tomorrow morning. But I'm going to enjoy this. Cheers.

[00:32:54]Lord, thank you for this food, Lord.

[00:32:56]Thank you for this drink, Lord. Thank you for all that you do for me.

[00:33:02]Lord, I just ask you just watch over us, Lord, day today day and get us out of here, Lord. Don't let there be all those gators out there in that canal like there was yesterday, Lord, where it's narrow. Just get us out of here safely and let us have a beautiful day. Thank you for your Christians, your name we pray. Amen.

[00:33:35]Well, it weren't grits and egg, but wasn't bad either. Pretty good little breakfast. And I ain't got much clean up to do in there. put it in our little trash bag and we're all clean, ready to go. So, get up and start getting packed up. We got to move back out through those gators today. So, see how that goes. See y'all in a little bit.

[00:35:16]Do it other way. Other way. Other way.

[00:35:18]Other way.

[00:35:19]>> Other way.

[00:37:20]You want just go fast.

[00:37:26]Stay still. Get just go fast.

[00:37:33]Where you going? Straight into the weeds.

[00:37:37]Okay. Okay. Okay. I just get nervous, honey. Very nervous. Very nervous.

[00:38:56]All right, guys. That was pretty neat.

[00:38:57]We just ran into a fellow YouTuber. So, y'all check out his channel, Fishing with Fort.

[00:39:04]We may do something together one day.

[00:39:06]Who knows?

[00:39:08]See about it, guys. We're headed back out. We're still doing a twoiner, but we're going to round up to the truck and grab us some waters and our tent poles that our daughter's bringing where we'll have proper tent for tonight. That'll be a next video y'all can watch next weekend. So, hope y'all enjoyed it. And again, thank y'all for watching. Blackwater Outdoor Journeys. Remember, where the map ends, wild again. Stay rugged, guys.

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