My new work place is a gold mine of herps

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I have been doing a security job for a month or so now. My job is to ride around a 5000 acre undeveloped wooded area on an ATV. Just riding around on that is cool enough. This place is the ultimate herp playground though. In the last few weeks I've seen Indigos, ratsnakes, kings, racers out the @ss, as well as pygmy and eastern diamond back rattlers and one coral snake. There is also a monster lake on the property and you come across gators all day and some are well over ten feet long. If you shine a light on the lake at night you can see red eyes all over. Pretty cool stuff.

There are also soft shells and sliders everywhere as well as some of Floridas other wildlife birds, bobcats and maybe a panther. We've seen some large cat tracks and heard the scream but not seen the cat yet.

Everyone on the job is either current or retired law enforcement so we all know which ones are off limits to touch so there is no problem there. The only bad part is in the next few months it's all going to be taken away and turned into million dollar homes and a golf course community. I've taken some pics and will post when I get a chance. Just wanted to share.