Just some of the things I need to get off my chest.
I live here.
Published on June 26, 2007 By mschleisner In Community

If I get another person who tells me we don't have Alligators or Crocs here in Florida I will pull my hair out, they say, you don't have swamps, you don't have Eagles, rattle snakes, you name it. Look folks if you don't live here and don't google it then please do not argue with me I have lived here over 25 years, had gators at my back door from the pond, big ones. We are tropical here, we have lizards, free flying parrots, and bigger bugs then you can guess. Algae covered trees and swamps. Forrests, beaches ofcouse, but more than most people know.  Flamingos do fly free here. Monkeys are loose here too, Bobcats, foxes, wolves, bear, and racoons, possums, and armadillo. Killer bees too. Spiders that would send northerners back home, yes they are big. I have taken many pictures recently and had them questioned, two were in my computer that were in a download from key west, they turned out not to be mine. Didn't know who downloaded them or how they got in the folder, and we saw this same type of thing in near Key West while hiking in the woods, I have several others but will not post. I go through the woods at Hillborough State Park and now that one came into question so no more posts at this time. I will post on my own site outside wincustomize for now. One was reposted by someone else. I give up. my membership will just be for my own satisfaction and not those who know nothing about Florida and how we live, and what animals, bugs, birds live here. If this seems harsh it's not. I just don't think people know what is here and what isn't. I have seen other items taken off the net and posted here as someones photos, not everything here is a photo taken by the person who posted them, and no credit was given to the person who took the photo. Thanks for looking at my photos anyway.


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on Jun 27, 2007
A mosquito landed at Darwin airport once....and the refuellers pumped 200 gallons of kerosine into it before they realised it wasn't a plane....
on Jun 28, 2007
We have mosquitos - jolly good WW2 aircraft...
on Jun 28, 2007
I used to live in Florida, and I saw an Alligator in a small lake in the car park of Sawgrass Mills (a very large shopping center on the edge of the everglades). And some of those Palmetto beetles are bloody huge!
on Jun 29, 2007
A mosquito landed at Darwin airport once....and the refuellers pumped 200 gallons of kerosine into it before they realised it wasn't a plane.


That's nuffin....Qantas had to divert its first ever 747 flight into Brisbane due to fear of a nasty collision with an erratic mossie over the airport.
on Jun 29, 2007
I was informed after watching a show on telly that the monkeys came from the filming of Tarzan many a year ago. They escaped the island because they could swim. We have stuff here like the Banana spider that was let loose due to shipments of Bananas, imports cause many things non-native. Parrots here were not the norm either, many of them are colonies of Quackers let loose by owners are now breeding free and taking the habitate of birds that are native to florida. People are starting to call motorcycle riders (no-see-ums). that is awful I know but many ride here so fast and pass between cars and so fast you can hardly see them. I am glad to know I am not the only one who has seen these things here as well. Has anyone been thru the "Glades" on an airboat?
Jungle is the word for the Glades, and the moss on the ground and in the trees is awesome.
on Jun 29, 2007
Has anyone been thru the "Glades" on an airboat?


Now THAT's what I'd like to do sometime!!   

on Jun 29, 2007
and just yesterday a man got his arm about bitten off by an 11 foot alligator as he tried to pick his golf ball out of the water at a country club golf course pond...


not the recommended way to change your handicap........  
on Jun 30, 2007
imports cause many things non-native.


I 'ears thar wur pirates in Florider - n' tha blaggards wur bringin' non-native stuff in frum Cuba...n' of course, whar thar be pirates, thar'll be parrots.
on Jun 30, 2007
almost bitten off by a 11 foot alligator.....

In North Queensland here in Oz....a croc snatched a golfer and his cart from the 17 hole of a local golf course.
on Jun 30, 2007

In North Queensland here in Oz....a croc snatched a golfer and his cart from the 17 hole of a local golf course.

Had gone off American tourists....needed a change of diet?....

on Jun 30, 2007
Swimming instructors at Casuarina swimming club in Darwin, Australia, have a unique way to help teach their young students to swim faster - by having a crocodile chase them during speed trials! The instructors use a six-foot saltwater crocodile with its jaws taped shut, but even with all those precautions, students still find the experience a tad intimidating. Yet this new teaching method seems to be working - the students have found that it helps shave seconds off their swimming time!

on Jun 30, 2007

Had gone off American tourists....needed a change of diet?....

Nah ...wanted a lift to the 19th hole, but when the golfer refused [silly thing to do] ...the croc decided to drive itself.

on Jun 30, 2007
Has anyone been thru the "Glades" on an airboat?


Did a lot of camping there out of canoes when I was a teen. You gotta go in Jan-March or the clouds of skeeters will drain you.

If I go that far south nowadays I'll usually take my boat down into the Thousand Islands area for some fishing. Last time there I pulled up a 200 lb Jew Fish. Protected species.......
on Jun 30, 2007
You covered most of what we've got but you missed a few of the invasive species......
we got snowbirds, tourists, furriners, yankees & damn yankees (gotta be a native to know the difference)


 


Being native born to Daytona Beach, I'll enlighten the readers as to what the difference between a Yankee and Damn Yankee is. A Yankee comes down here and spends their money. A damn yankee comes down here and stays.

  
on Jun 30, 2007
Had gone off American tourists....needed a change of diet?.


Apparently they're not such a delicacy since word got out that one gave a 28 ft salty one almighty belly ache

Swimming instructors at Casuarina swimming club in Darwin, Australia, have a unique way to help teach their young students to swim faster - by having a crocodile chase them during speed trials!


Oi, don't go giving our swim secrets away...next they'll be taking our gold medals at the next Olympics....there again, could always dispense with the tape.


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