I got to do something today that I’ve never had the chance to do before. A neighbor killed an alligator with a 20 gauge shotgun. The alligator was small, only about 3 feet long, maybe 3 and 1/2. After trying to sell it without luck he gave it to me. Guajiros in this part of South America are apparently only used to eating chicken and goat and sometimes iguana, so most of them didn’t want anything to do with gator. I cut off the tail and after skinning it cut the meat off of the tailbone. It turned out to be about a pound and a half of meat.
Most of the old people didn’t want to try any, but the young kids were eating it like it was popcorn, which is weird because that’s the opposite of what would happen in the U.S. It was pretty tasty if I may say so myself. I fried it in oil with salt and some kind of red spice that they use here. It was kind of like chicken nuggets. I didn’t have a wire brush to take the last of the meat off of the skin like I wanted unfortunately, but I put salt on it and hung it on a clothes line to dry for a few days. I don’t know anything about preparing skins so it probably wont work, but hopefully it will. I go to Santa Marta again tomorrow and maybe to Bogotá to get some immigration paperwork done afterwards, so hopefully it will be fine when I come back and I can work with it to make something. We will see.
Factoid of the day:
In the state, La Guajira, in Colombia you can buy grenades for $25 a piece.
When I have my paperwork paid for and some debts paid I will probably buy a couple and use them deep in the woods here just for kicks.
