USA trip II Daytona show 2002

This trip was possible for me because of Midwest Reptile Handling Equipment that flew me over to the 2002 Daytona expo.  

I like to thank the whole Midwest team for there hospitality, and their good care for me true the week.

I also want to thank MsTT (Tanith) for driving us around to Gatorland and the BBQ at George Van Horns Snake park.

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A good view of the big hall at the 2002 Daytona expo.

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 The top pictures is the Midwest team behind the Midwest booth. Karl H.Betz and his wife, Angela, Jerry and Mickey and Gus also known as Tzabcan on the internet. The picture on the right bottem is the stand from Bob Clark.

 

Just some Daytona specials; left Albino Nile monitor. right; Albino Boa constrictot occinentalis

And a guy taming down tockey geckos :-)

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At George Van Horns Snake Park in Orlando Florida is a big turtle pond including this funny swimming sulcatta tortoise and a beautifull Trionyx turtle. Inside are a number of setups with nice species of snakes including mambas, cobra, kingcobras, rattelsnakes, vipers and non-venomous snakes to see. The two guys at the snake pond are Uwe and Gus two friends. 

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We also visited Gatorland in Orlando were Tanith knew the keepers. Gatorland has a wide variety of different Crocodillian species and some birds and mammal species like those little white-tailed deers.

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