Bozsik Loc: Orangevale, California

Here are a few shots from the 4 hours I spent at Homosassa Springs. It is a State Park and rehab center for native wildlife. There are many differents kinds of animals to shoot, but the emphasis is on birds.

ole sarg Loc: south florida

just google everglades national park and it will give all sorts of info regarding photography there. use plenty of sun block, have about twelve cans of spray off and a hat. wear long pants, look down before standing anywhere too long lots of fire ants.

fifthwish Loc: SE Florida

I agree with the first statement above. I have driven through the glades several from Ft. Lauderdale to the west coast. You will have plenty of opportunities to pull off the interstate and obtain some nice images of some gators basking in the sun as well as many other attrective birds. Good luck and enjoy.

marcomarks Loc: Ft. Myers, FL

Alligator Alley runs between Miami and Naples, so you can reach it from either end. Yes Boas are quite rampant in the 'glades.' As a matter of fact, a documentary I saw said that Boas and Pythons have reproduced and multiplied so much that they have even spread north until a few have been found in the wild near Jacksonville!

I'm in the Ft. Myers area now and there was a report on WINK-TV in Ft. Myers just this week that a 15-foot Boa was caught and killed here in Lee County by a couple specialists. They showed the men dragging its corpse up into a pickup bed and it had to be folded in half to shut the tailgate. Of course some spotted-owl tree-hugger nuts were quoted as complaining that it was cruelty to the snake to kill it. Let one eat their poodle or toddler and they might change their tune. I've also heard that Boas are also threatening the panther population here - if you can imagine a Boa being fast enough to catch a panther. Then again, where would a panther sleep that a Boa couldn't go there? Certainly not in a tree..

There was also a report a few weeks back where a Boa tried to eat an alligator. The Boa died trying and the alligator died of suffocation with the front half of it inside the Boa, so there they laid - both dead.

I talked to a guy this week who likes to go from Ft. Myers to the Keys in his built-up topless 4X4 Jeep CJ8 as recreation with his wife. I talked about taking my motorcycle down there sometime and he warned me to do so only in the daytime and get to my destination before dark. Not because of 'gators, but mostly because Boas come out and lay in the road at night (probably because of the warm pavement) and hitting one with a motorcycle could be far worse than dodging a alligator. He has seen Boas down there that were hit by cars.

The Boas and Pythons have apparently become very hazardous to the wildlife in FL because they will eat anything they can kill including each other. And this all happened in the last decade from just a few imported ones that became too large to keep in homes and the owners released them into the wild.

Definitely stay in an air boat unless you're on a suicide mission!

Bmac Loc: Long Island, NY

I think this guy/gal is trolling yet everyone keeps babbling about the Everglades, hasn't anyone, besides a couple, read what's been said by the OP? 8-)

Erv Loc: Medina Ohio

Bmac
I think nicedream is driving up to take me out on a date!:mrgreen: Hope he is rich!
Erv:twisted:

madcapmagishion

Are you jealous he didn't ask you out on a date?:mrgreen:

marcomarks Loc: Ft. Myers, FL

You must be reading too many newspaper dating ads or something. I don't see any signs of trolling at all, although I'm not up on that kind of thing. Pythons and Boas are definitely a major problem down here that has multiplied immensely in the last 5 years.

I suppose I could also read between the lines and find that the author is a terrorist looking for a direct path from Miami into the Everglades to set off a nuclear bomb on Alligator Alley to send a cloud of poisonous waste into Cuba but that would be assuming an awful lot on my part.

Erv Loc: Medina Ohio

I think you missed a few posts. Start reading from 6 down!!
Erv

Goldengatebill

Best place to see gators is on Rt. 29 just north of the alley (US 75) (there is an exit there) A canal is on the right side and go north till the chain-link fence stops look along the canal (you can pull over anywhere) and you will see plenty!

Bmac Loc: Long Island, NY

Ha, I hope he's rich also. For your sake Erv. 8-)

Bmac Loc: Long Island, NY

Yes, if he's rich, why should Erv get him? :|

Erv Loc: Medina Ohio

I need a bigger and betterer camera than you? :-D
OK folks, back to the gators!
Erv

Erv Loc: Medina Ohio

OH I forgot! I think "nicedreams" has left the house. :roll:
Erv

Bmac Loc: Long Island, NY

Uhmm, no, don't read dating ads, never have, and this is the first forum I have ever been part of, but here is a couple of quotes from the OP.

"Guy's, I was always going to hire a guide. Chill.
I'm a woman lover. I really like Woman, ok? Can't wait to see what you say to me."

And

"I'm 54, would you like to date?"

So, after reading the above quotes I formed an opinion that perhaps everyone was wasting their time talking to him/her about the Glades. But hell, I certainly could be wrong and besides, I like hearing about the Everglades, so keep the thread going, no harm done at all. :)