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Herps in Naples FL

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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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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!
 
annmikeal said:
It almost looks like one of the lookouts off Hwy 41 right past Everglades City :)
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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.
 
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.
 
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
 
HogginHissStrike said:
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
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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
 
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...
 
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