WATCH: Massive alligator and Florida bicyclist have close encounter [Video]

BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. (WFLA) – Alligator mating season is ramping up in the Sunshine State, and residents are starting to feel its impact.

Alligators will be looking for love from April until June, meaning there will be a greater chance of encountering the massive reptiles this month, and one Florida woman’s gator encounter left people stunned.

Brandy Dentzau was in the Bonita National Golf & Country Club community in Bonita Springs on April 12 when she witnessed a gigantic alligator cross paths with a bicyclist.

Video of the encounter shows the alligator slowly walking across the road as a woman in a pink tank top stops her bike to take a picture of the large reptile.

After taking a picture, Dentzau can be heard asking the woman where the gator was headed. Then, she spotted another massive gator lying in the shade.

“So, are the lakes just behind you? Or …