Herps in Naples FL
 

Field herping in FL is always exciting...:dgrin:
(Don't remember where I took these, but I think it was while driving on I-75...A.K.A. alligator alley)

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So... technically it be an alley, not a field.

That's neat, I see geese and toads... And you want to move away, why?

Haha that's just not fair! I get excited over iguanas at the pet store and you can just drive down the road to see gators!!!!! Very nice!

It almost looks like one of the lookouts off Hwy 41 right past Everglades City :)

Actually, you're probably right. That water does look too clean to be something that's under those overpasses on 75. I don't go to Everglade city often so I assumed I took those on 75.

In everglade city is where I had the closest call with a gator. I'm sitting at a table outside of some gas station/general store...when I turn around and see a good sized gator not 15 feet from me. So, after screaming like a woman in labor :eek:, I took some pics. I'll try to find & post those.

Im waiting for pics nicky :toetap05:

lol, love the story. i moved from there about 2 months back, and really miss it :)

Really neat pictures. I'm up here near Gainesville, and I swear *real* alligators fall from the sky. The little pond I have has 2-4 baby gators in it all the time. :P

I live in Naples and Its nice to be able to see gators often. I've traveled to near Everglades city to go fishing and had some close calls with a few of them. There used to be a place you could go where there were 20+ wild gators that stayed near a specific part of a canal. They recently built a deck for people to stand on to get to see them. Was always exciting to see them in the wild. I live near a lot of canals and they always have gators in them.

Where do you go in naples?...i live there too and was thinkin about goin out in the south blocks (picayune) to see what i can find

I do alot of off roading and field herping in Lee, Collier, and Charlotte counties. I catch a lot of rattlers, ratsnakes, gators, etc etc.

Picayune is fantastic for snakes and gators. my favorite spot to catch diamondbacks and pigmy rattlers.

I also do a TON of invasive species collections down in Naples. most recently I collected several Brown Basilisk adults, knight anoles, and some other smaller anoles.

yea im tryin to find some rattlers too so i guess ill try picayune...also wouldnt mind seein a coral in the wild..figure ill go right after a rain so maybe therell be a bunch of activity on the road...i also heard that people are finding pythons like crazy out there

i'm probably gonna head out to the picayune tomorrow in my rover. start mid morning and just cruise around/hike all day until the evening/afternoong rains

i have work during the week but if u ever head out there on the weekend id go

on my trip to picayune tonight I caught a corn snake (male), male florida banded water snake, saw a barred owl, gators, and caught a squirrel at a gas station...