Generally he sole purpose of any road trip for me is to find animals that I can't find in my area. South Florida has basically all the same species of reptiles up here as down south with a few exceptions. However, in the past couple decades many species of exotic reptiles, amphibians, fish, and birds have been introduced to this sub-tropical environment.
I don't like that any of these animals are here but in many cases they are here to stay and it would be extremely difficult/impossible to remove them. Nonetheless, they are awesome animals and some friends and I went down to find some of the exotic reptiles that live down there. So, here's what we found!
These were the two biggest finds of the trip! Both were found outside of Everglades Nat'l Park. These two guys were found about 15 minutes apart and that burmese python was fresh out of the egg. The adult female chameleon was one of 4 chameleons found on that trip. The python was the only one we found but we know several other people found pythons in ENP over during the time we were there.
All in all it was an awesome trip with these two highlights but we did find a lot of other exotics including iguanas, anoles, and basilisks.
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