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Green Swamp Herping Trip

Nanci

Nanci

Alien Lover
Well, my friends called it a bike ride- but if I stop- they stop!

First, I had to go in to work this morning, so I got up at 1:00 AM, worked from 2-7, drove two hours south, napped in my truck for an hour, then rode 40 miles. Then we ate at Sonny's, and I was making great time on the way home, till traffic slowed down to 20 mph with no end in sight. I bailed after about 15 miles, and my GPS took me on a beautiful tour of horse country on the way home, making the trip take an extra long time! When I got home, the house was 92F...I just had the heat on two nights ago!

We saw a ton of these guys, Gopher Tortoises. About one every hundred feet. 50-80 of them, easily. Sitting on their porches, walking down the trail, I even saw two together!

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Saw a few of these- not sure of the species. It was 80F out- good basking weather.

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Saw three of these! All roughly the same size.

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Also seen but not photographed were a skink, four anoles, a disappearing black snake tail and a black racer that I attempted to capture instead of photograph, but he ran into some blackberry bushes and just hung out there. If I could have gotten one more step closer before he took off...

Video of tortoise to follow when it's done uploading!
 
Wow girl you are as crazy as me doing all that stuff in one day with little sleep. The little turtle covered in duck weed appears to be a red eared slider but without seeing the side of his face I couldn't be certain. I absolutely love the gator pic! You are so lucky to be in an area so rich with wildlife. Thanks for sharing.
 
Dang Nanci!

I forgot you were in the neighborhood Sunday. You coulda stopped by and seen the collection and had lunch or something, I'm ten minutes up the road. Great finds BTW. Lisa and I talked about a trailer for Kenzie, just not sure if we can get a trip in before it gets hot.:rofl:
 
Cflaguy said:
I forgot you were in the neighborhood Sunday. You coulda stopped by and seen the collection and had lunch or something, I'm ten minutes up the road.
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That'd have been cool, except I was on three hours of sleep and rode from 10 till 3...I just wanted to get home.
 
Excuse me for replying to this topic weeks too late. But that is so awesome. I hope to spend one dream holiday in my life looking for gators in Florida.
 
Marcel Poots said:
I hope to spend one dream holiday in my life looking for gators in Florida.
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They shouldn't be hard to find- they're laying around all over the place! I'll never forget the first one I saw in the wild- it was small, maybe four or five feet. I was in the Everglades, at a pond in the woods. The gator swam behind us as we walked all the way around the pond. Bet it had happy experiences of getting fed by humans!
 
the duck weed covered basking turtle is a florida red bellied turtle.

i see them all over when I go hiking.

great pics!
 
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