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!

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. :)

Gators are not attracted to blood but strictly by motion. You do know that gators do not eat fresh kill ... right? What a gator will do is grab you, pull you under the water and drown you. Then he will stuff you under a ledge or tree roots underwater to tenderize you before he starts dinning on ya! :roll: