Well...after spending 33 years in that ara collecting/observing...don't know how "lucky" I was...but had some good success. There have been several other people in that area who have caught burmese pythons as well. I was on the call out list for animals for both the Tampa Police department and the Hillsborough County Sheriffs for many years. That is how I got the 13' python, recieved a call at 2:00AM to go pick up a snake. That snake ended up with Tom Crutchfield. The two boas were found "road cruising", one in Nine Eagles, which is Pinellis County and one in Durant Florida, Hillsborough County. The anaconda was found under a bridge on SR 580 going north out of Tampa. That used to be known back then as the "road to no where"...now they call it New Tampa. The Liasis, again was a phone call from a friend I worked with who had a snake in his garage. He had 10 acres out in the country, near Valrico, and the snake was coiled on his tool board in his garage. So, the only one that I really discoverd while actually walking in the woods was the small burm about 6 feet that I found in Lithia Pinecrest. It was strange , because you kind of train you eyes to see local stuff and then when something like that appears you almost over look it. I would not have seen that snake had it not flicked out its tongue, but, yet after that, it stood out like a sore thumb. Just wondering though...how did you determine that the box turtle came from Kentucky?

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