RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — In a rare sight, two alligators were spotted in the surf just days apart at Carolina beaches after storms with heavy rains pounded the North and South Carolina coastal areas over several days.
Just a couple of days before police wrangled a beached alligator at a North Carolina island, a family vacationing in nearby South Carolina spotted a gator strolling on a beach.
The first gator was spotted at Huntington Beach State Park on Monday evening, just south of Myrtle Beach near Murrells Inlet, according to Tim Yauger, an associate pastor at Bread of Life Tabernacle in Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
Yauger was taking an anniversary vacation with his wife, Samantha, along with their two children, when they visited the state park on their first day in South Carolina.
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Just three days later, on Thursday, about 50 miles north — just over the line in North Carolina — police in Sunset Beach were called just after 1:45 p.m. about an alligator spotted along the island’s beach in the surf…