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From Reptile and Fish keeping at my home, to Fishing to Herping in the wilderness, and even some Overlanding adventures all over the country, exploring never gets boring.

A Scarlet Snake (Cemophora coccinea) found in Big Cypress during my most recent trip to Florida. Found right next to our...
06/17/2026

A Scarlet Snake (Cemophora coccinea) found in Big Cypress during my most recent trip to Florida.

Found right next to our campsite by complete coincidence, I shined this little guy while heading out for our first herping walk of the night.

At first, I definitely thought this was a much more uncommon Scarlet Kingsnake (Lampropeltis elapsoides) but a coccinea is still a pretty neat find!

These fossorial snakes look very similar to a Scarlet Kingsnake, but can be distinguished by distinct pattern variations as well as a white belly.

While definitely not the rarest snake in Florida, and certainly not a target for this trip, it was still at welcome find nonetheless!

After a short photo sesh and a healthy amount of admiration, this beautiful snake was released back under the rock it was found next to.

06/12/2026

Herping can be hard…

When you lose an animal, sometimes you just gotta take the L and keep hiking…

Don’t worry, there will always be more “ones that got away” to kick yourself over!

Just gotta keep going though, there’s always something else to find out there!

(I guess I make memes now?)

06/08/2026

Viewmaxxing at this campsite

06/06/2026

It’s snake season, so make sure you look twice before you reach down to grab that ball…

Many golf courses in Arizona a built right on top of snake habitat, integrating the course into the desert landscape while at the same time providing lots of water, food, and resource rich areas in a desert landscape that is generally very scarce when it comes to resources like food, water and shelter.

This concentration of high value resources in close proximity to areas frequented by humans leads to an inevitable increase in snake encounters on golf courses in Arizona.

Luckily, most golfers in this state are at least semi familiar with our native wildlife and know that these snakes want just as much to do with you as you want to do with them (nothing at all).

Even so, gotta be careful when go looking for that ball that out of bounds when golfing in Arizona!

06/01/2026

My Tokay Geckos don’t like me very much…

05/23/2026

Sweet Jesus…

Throwback to my most recent trip. Floridamaxxing with my boysHerpmaxxing wherever I wentFreedommaxxing by engaging in re...
05/14/2026

Throwback to my most recent trip.

Floridamaxxing with my boys
Herpmaxxing wherever I went
Freedommaxxing by engaging in reverse retirement tactics

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