[GarterGuy]

Hey welcome home. Sorry to hear that Fla. was kind of a bummer for you. I can totally understand though....there are a lot of areas down there that are just totally ruined by "progress", but there also is a lot of natural beauty there as well. My first time to go there, I was sooo excited and it ended up being really crappy. It was so cold, cloudy and miserable(we went in March), that I spent most of the time indoors. Where I stay is in Tampa, at my wife's grandparents place. It's one of those "canned communities", but even there, there's wildlife. Tons of anoles (mostly browns but a couple greens), frogs, toads, southern racers, ringnecks, turtles....and in a near by park (just a regular suburban park with a jogging path and two lakes) I found banded waters snakes, tons more anoles, more turtles and of course gators...even saw a mother and babies. Hopefully you'll get to go there again and be able to enjoy some of the better areas that are there...it's kind of like James said, it's a big place.
Roy