Louisiana man Lance Burgos' curiosity about an unattended pool noodle led him to a close encounter with a large gator while kayaking at a local state park with his daughter. Burgos pulled the noodle up expecting to find a catfish, but instead found the jaws of a large gator reaching out of the water toward his boat. Screen capture/Lance Burgos/YouTube
He told the Times-Picayune that he and his friend had noticed the floating pool noodle throughout the day and were just curious enough to pull it up.
"We saw some gators throughout the weekend, but nothing like what was on the end of that line," Burgos said.
Burgos can be seen quickly paddling his boat away from the gator as his daughter begins to cry and he warns his friend in a nearby boat of the gator's presence.
"I thought it was a big garfish," he said. "I was in a 13-foot Hobie Outback, and that thing had 3 foot of head that was a foot and a half across."
