Calusa Herpetological Society 2009 Annual Christmas Party (Pictures below)
The party this season was hosted by Bill & Kathy Love in Alva, Florida on Saturday, Dec. 19th. About 65 people attended. Two bands -- Milhouse and The Blacklist -- provided live music, and Jarvis Jolly was the master barbeque chef. The auction raised about $700; thanks to everyone who generously donated items and helped manage the party festivities, including:
Ty
Park / Lasco:
2 male boa constrictors, 4 juvenile leopard geckos, B&W tegu, adult Knight's
anole
Toni
Vigneri: male
sulcata tortoise, 3 - 2ft Desert 7% UVB bulbs, 2 - 10-gal aquariums with
screen lids & wrought iron stand.
Tom
Crutchfield Reptiles: $250
gift certificate to his company
Shane
Johnson: golden
gecko with plastic critter keeper cage
Kathy
& Bill Love / CornUtopia: 2
adult male ball pythons
Joe
Rollo: male
ball python
Jerry
Gingerich: book
- Florida's Fabulous Mammals (& event photographer)
Gino
& Ellen Sassani / Lost World Reptiles: CR
2-year-old old white-sided black rat snake
Eric
Russell & ZooMed: 2
XL ZooMed t-shirts, CB crested gecko, med ZooMed t-shirt, basket of misc. toys
Daniel
& Lisa Parker / Sunshine Serpents: The
Blacklist music CD & t-shirt
Chris
Lechowicz: turtle
dock for aquarium
Bill
Murray / Redfoot Ranch: CB
baby
redfoot tortoise
Art
de Lamerens: 2
- "just hours old" hatchling yellow foot tortoises
Some pictures of the fun that day. . . . .
"Redneck Horseshoes" being tossed by Dasha. Hey, what kind of horseshoes are those anyway?
Kailee about to get dunked in the pool. (It didn't happen.)
"Kill that turtle pinata!"
Combined Milhouse and The Blacklist band members, L - R: Juancho, Shane, Lisa, Daniel, Chris, and Anthony.
Auction: Eric Russell, Bill Love and Tom Crutchfield presided over this event.
Bill Love thanks everyone who took a tour of his new ReptileRally nature trails and posed for publicity pictures showing all the cool herps it'll be possible to see out there at times.
Calusa Herpetological Society, P.O. BOX 602, Sanibel, Florida 33957 TEL: (239) 728-2390 (< Kathy Love)
WEB: www.calusaherp.org