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Eight-year-old Emmitt Frame was visiting Point Pelee for the first time on August 22. Emmitt is pictured here with his grandmother, Jackie Maybee, and a friendly corn snake. Emmitt said that he was looking forward to a trip to the tip after handling the snakes in the Visitor Centre.
SUN photo by Paul Forman

Reptile meet and greet educates at Point Pelee

Scales Nature Park of Orillia brought their traveling reptile show to the Point Pelee National Park Visitor Centre this past weekend for three sessions that provided information about some misunderstood creatures, and gave both the young and old an opportunity to get up close and personal with one of their 12 snakes.

Offered as an outreach program that stresses the importance of conservation relating to native reptiles and amphibians, educators Gab Diez and Nolan Felstiad of Scales Nature Park have been making stops at parks throughout Ontario this summer.

Gab Diez of Scales Nature Park holds a large snake during the reptile meet and greet at Point Pelee National Park.

Gab Diez of Scales Nature Park is ready to hand off one of the larger snakes to a willing attendee at the annual meet and greet at Point Pelee.
SUN photo by Paul Forman