A huge alligator was caught on camera lumbering across a road in Kiawah Island, South Carolina, on April 20.

Footage recorded by Teresa Ficca shows the massive animal slowly walking across a road before eventually settling down before reaching the other side.

“My daughter and her black lab and I were walking home from the beach and a man waved at us and told us we should go to the other side of the street. I thought maybe residents didn’t want us walking near their property. He then said there is large alligator at the end of the white fence which was where we were,” Ficca told Storyful.

“I was looking for what he was talking about – not realizing it was right in front of us. I thought it was a rock. When I finally saw it I couldn’t believe it,” she said.

According to Kiawah Conservancy, April marks mating season for the alligators on Kiawah Island. The conservancy said residents might be more likely to see the animals but to keep their distance and never feed them.

“We were visiting Kiawah for my niece’s wedding and got to experience a little bit of nature too! I am fine with never seeing one again,” Ficca told Storyful. Credit: Teresa Ficca via Storyful

Video transcript

- He's going to try to go to that pond is where he's going.

- OK.

- That's a big boy.

- Oh, my family's going to be mad they missed this. I don't have my phone on me.

- He does this every year. When they start mating, he'll go from that one. He's stays in that pond most of the time.

- Yeah, we-- we saw that pond.

- Then he'll go over there. Look at that. That's a dinosaur.

- Isn't his name Charlie or something?

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

[LAUGHTER]

- And then walk--

- Oh.

- He's trying to go to that pond is where he's going.

- OK.

- That's the big boy.

- Oh, my family's going to be mad they missed this. I don't have my phone on me.

- He does this every year. When they start mating, he'll go from that one. He stays in pond most of the time.

- Yeah, we-- we saw him in that pond.

- Then he'll go over there. Look at that, that's a dinosaur.

- Isn't his name Charlie or something?

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

[LAUGHTER]

- And then walk--

- Oh.