While we were driving to the alligator farm, Mum almost drove over a snake, and we later found out that it was a very large Rat Snake.
When we first got there we saw some chickens, I thought they would be lunch for the alligators, but when we asked the lady at the counter she said they were not for lunch but she did not know what they were used for, something about keeping pests down.
When we got in we saw some parrots, then we walked to see some monitor lizards. Then we went to the snake enclosure where we saw different types of snakes and the largest was an Anaconda. After a short look around we went to the snake show. He talked about the different types of snakes in Florida and then he got one of people from the audience who was afraid of snakes to come out, where he asked them to hold the snake, and they were not sure about that. He then asked them to turn around and he put a larger python on their shoulders, not one of the smaller ones that he had been showing us. At the end of the show we could hold the pythons, but Mum and I did not want to.
Next we went on an air boat, which is a giant fan propelled by a car engine on the back of a boat. To start off with we went slowly, but when we got to the marsh area we went faster and did 360s.
We then went to the alligator show and again the guy did stupid things with gators. Then we looked in at the nursery and wandered around the rest of the place.
After lunch we drove to the Everglades, where we saw some vultures, then we walked on some board walks over the marshes and saw some fish and on the way back to the car we saw an alligator on the side of the path. When we got back to the carpark, the …. vultures had eaten our windscreen wiper blades, and Mum and Dad were not amused, especially as it started raining. But we continued on and went to another walking area, and then went to Wall Mart to get new wiper blades….
For dinner we went to a nice pizza place down the road, where we got our leftover pizza ‘boxed’
Boxed = 1
This was an exciting day and what a reptilian experience! My mom once has a rat snake fall on here that had been sleeping on our up and over garage door that had been left open all day. It went up there to stay cool and when Mom lowered the door in the evening, down dropped the snake on her head! She was terrified needless to say! They are actually harmless…well, unless you happen to be a rat!