KELLY S'LATER, ALLIGATOR.

Gators Regulate At Kelly's Home-Break

Slater Way, the Florida street named after the World Champ, was the place to be on the weekend as two alligators and a crocodile went on a most peculiar surfing rampage around Cocoa Beach.

An alligator was spotted in the surf directly off Slater Way, where Kelly surfed daily as a grom; another gator was found at the Hobgoods' home-break, five miles south at Satellite Beach; and a rare American Crocodile was caught under Cocoa Beach Pier making continuous unsuccessful attempts to get back into the surf.

Kelly explains, "Never saw 'em myself in the ocean but heard about these at home and saw the news footage of them. It's not too unheard of and I remember it happened a couple times before.

"Once there was supposedly a ten footer at the pier at home the morning of a contest.

The lumbering reptiles are believed to have slithered out of the nearby St Johns River' estuaries and into the surf in a bid to sniff out an abnormally brisk season of turtle eggs.

According to Slater, the crocodilians are much easier to deal with on land: "When I'm on the golf course at home I grab 'em by the tail if they're asleep on the banks of the lakes. We see them a lot."

"Wouldn't wanna swim with one ... A kid got attacked by a croc a few months ago surfing in Costa Rica."