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jonnyc1988
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United Kingdom
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 Posted - 03/09/2012 : 18:53:07
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Hey, just got back from a 2 week holiday in orlando, its been amazing!! My biggest problem was I could not find any wild snakes!! They really are the best hiders in the world. I heard plenty of great stories from locals about rattlers and cottonmouths, and even a funny story about 5 builders who refused to continue working on someones garage until the wild cornsnake that was in there was removed. Apparently they were all screaming when they saw it.
There are loads of anoles, mainly brown ones, but I saw some green ones too. You can look in any bush and find one. As you walk along the pavement you can see them all jumping onto the grass, then back onto the pavement behind you.
It was amazing seeing wild gators too. I even saw a leusistic gator.
Gators are the mascot for their football team the florida gators, so I figured there would be some amount of respect for the gators which was really cool. all the merchandise you saw had an alligator on it. But then I started going into some gift shops and you could buy gator heads that had been sealed in some sort of glue for $10, or backscratchers made from gator claws, and each shop must have had about 50 heads for sale. I found it really sad that they were killing their native animal that they use as a mascot and selling them as ornaments. Each shop had a whole gator that was glued into a stupid demeaning position to make it look like it was stood up on its back legs.
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Meadow
Yearling
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04/09/2012 : 09:08:42
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Sounds great!
I went to Orlando and did the whole Disney thing back in 1997 with my then husband and we had an amazing time. We took a couple of days out from all that, though, and went on a water safari further south and saw crocodiles and Rhesus monkeys (that have taken up residence after possibly escaping from the set of Tarzan, if rumours are to be believed), and all kinds of other cool stuff.
Wild snakes I've seen have been in Sweden, where I used to live. Saw some basking on rocks on the sides of roads, and not long before I left I was in the garden picking plums off the tree and a black snake started moving towards me. I squealed for the children to come over and have a look, it was so cool! Then it slithered off and I unfortunately never saw it again.
Also in Sweden the children were in the sea and a friend and I saw a 'thing' moving towards them in the water, and after a short while my friend shouted 'snake', so we ran over to where the children were to get a closer look. It came right up to the shoreline. Managed to get a couple of pics, I'll have to dig them out and post them.
Had badgers visiting me in the garden, too  And the odd elk (moose).
Sorry, went totally off topic from Orlando then  
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Originally posted by jonnyc1988
then I started going into some gift shops and you could buy gator heads that had been sealed in some sort of glue for $10, or backscratchers made from gator claws, and each shop must have had about 50 heads for sale. I found it really sad that they were killing their native animal that they use as a mascot and selling them as ornaments. Each shop had a whole gator that was glued into a stupid demeaning position to make it look like it was stood up on its back legs.
This is so sad  What are they thinking?? Yep yep, $$$ Horrible, isn't it?
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jonnyc1988
Sub Adult
United Kingdom
908 Posts |
Posted - 04/09/2012 : 18:16:56
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| It just seemed like they were praising gators as their mascot and mass killing them at the same time. It didnt make a lot of sense |
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