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I hope I didn't offend anyone (those flying things really are radioactive! ;-)).
But I actually know where the natural worry comes from. I went to India with my husband and was paranoid the whole time about microscopic organisms that I wasn't familiar with, weird things in the ocean I knew nothing about and geez...you want to talk about SNAKES??? Go to INDIA! I really can relate to being worried about the things we're not familiar with and how we'll cope. I was just teasing you all, I hope no harm was done from my end :-).
(Although I was serious about the critters)
Snakes really would rather get away from you than bite you. I've seen many in Florida and in fact had a pygmy rattlesnake in my backyard twice. That truly freaked me out as I didn't even KNOW we had rattlesnakes in Florida until that thing rattled at me. The second time I came upon it suddenly and startled it, and it jumped up what seemed like a foot in the air and took off.
The frogs I saw may be these.. Except they looked greener and were smaller.. I don't know, but I just heard from a friend, they are starting to peep about now...
Most of the lake beaches are very safe and pest free. It's only off the beaten path that you might encounter a snake. They are wild animals, they don't like being around popular places like the recreation areas in the lakes.
Have y'all heard about the sharks at our beaches yet??? :-)
OK, I swear, I'm just kidding. It's just odd to me to even give a second thought about these animals as a native. We go camping in the mountains knowing there are black bears, at the lakes knowing there are snakes, at Carolina Beach State park with the gators, in the ocean knowing there are sharks, but I've never really worried about the wildlife that much. Typically they have no interest in us. They do their own thing and don't just "attack" people. Chances are you may never encounter any of them while living here. For those of you relocating here, don't you all have some natural, scary beasts living amongst you that you don't even really pay attention to?
I can do without the spiders though. ugh.
In Florida We have the BIGGEST cockraches you've ever seen
Yeah, I've actually heard about those wild, meat eating, mutant cockroaches you guys cultivate down there :-D!!!!!!!
I'm not afraid of the big bad wolf!!! (but a spider or cockroach or will have me screaming like a little girl!)
I'm with you!!! Yuck!!! Are there really gator's in Carolina beach?? In the ocean? I have never heard of that...I just swam in Writesville beach last year.. Eeeekkkkkk..
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