Deco Drive Feature
If you thought the Jersey Shore was wildest reality show shooting in South Florida, guess again, there's a group of guys that make th e Situation and Pauly D look tame in comparison, and they've got their own tv show. Lynn Martinez got down and dirty with the swamp men.
Ed Woods is a game warden at Billie Swamp Safari a Wildlife Park in the heart of the Everglades. It's his job to keep visitors safe and that often means, putting his life in danger and danger always makes good tv.
Ed: "Well, swamp men as you'll see on nat geo wild is about billie swamp safari and what we do behind the scenes."
Swamp Men airs Monday night on National Geographic Channel. Cameras follow Ed and his team as they care for wild hogs, ostriches and gators lots and lots of gators.
Ed: "We had a six foot gator come up to the airboat dock and we had a lot of kids there that day so we had to catch it.. next thing you know an 11 foot alligator showed up and we had to catch it."
Ed respects all the animals at Billie Swamp Safari, but a select few get special treatment.
Ed: "My favorite animal is a chicken and people are like all those animals and you like a chicken the reason is that is a chicken when it hatches out of the egg if it's a hen it lays more eggs.. it's an animal that always gives to you."
When it comes to dangerous animals, Ed knows his stuff, but there is one violent creature he's never faced it's easily identified by it's orange skin, black fur and vicious temper the invasive species known as snookie.
Ed: "We got the situation right here i don't even know what you guys just said.. who's snookies? snookies aint gonna make it."
Fortunately, Ed will likely never encounter a Snookie, but he's got plenty of other dangerous animals right in his own backyard. |
