Florida is for herps lovers!!

I think the NC snake was a rat snake or something.

My friends say riding with me is like riding with Steve Irwin (crocodile hunter).

I have four herps right now, a Glass Lizard, (Baby Russell) a Corn Snake (Maizey, getting ready to shed right now, peeked out of her moist hide for the first time in a week today, eyes have gone clear again- I expect her to shed tonight or tomorrow. I got to _see_ her shed last time!) an Eastern Box Turtle, (Fagalo) and a tortoise (Cracker Chicken).

I was talking to a guy I was riding with today, who says his 40 year old sister has a bunch of lizards- geckos, mainly. My daughter has a bunch of obscure geckos, too. I guess we just never grow up.

I wonder why some people grow up with a love of reptiles and amphibians, and others grow up fearing/hating them.

I have two really memorable Florida snake moments: 1. Caught (and released) a Short-Tailed Snake up near Tallahassee. It's classified as rare. 2. Caught a Coral Snake while trail running. This is one of my lifetime dream reptile captures! It was very small, about 10 inches. I wasn't sure right away if it was a Coral or a King, and in the heat of the moment "Red On Black, Friend Of Jack, Red On Yellow, Kill A Fellow" wasn't coming clearly to mind, so I had to capture it before it got away while I could try to remember the saying. So I had this little snake around the neck, safely not biting me, but he had his mouth open and would have _liked_ to gnaw on my fingers, and I for some reason decided that because his snout was black, he was therefore a Coral Snake. So I set him back down in the grass and said goodbye.

Nanci