Wilderness Coast: Adventures of a Gulf Coast Naturalist

The "wilderness coast"--that portion of the Florida Panhandle that juts south into the Gulf of Mexico--is the home of Gulf Specimen Company and is the source of most of the marine creatures it supplies to educational institutions and research facilities. But the pursuit of unusual sea creatures and the answers to puzzling biological questions takes Jack and Anne Rudloe elsewhere, too. They have travelled to Surinam to catch giant toadfish, to the Florida Keys to study baby lobsters, to Port Canaveral to rescue endangered sea turtles, and they have plumbed the deepest reaches of the Gulf of Mexico to find prehistoric-looking giant sea roaches. Their business allows them to explore the life histories and mysteries of electric rays, octopuses, horseshoe crabs, sawfish, and other fascinating creatures, and they share their discoveries in this book, illustrated with color photographs, and line illustrations by Julia Damon Hanway.Rudloe, Jack is the author of 'Wilderness Coast: Adventures of a Gulf Coast Naturalist', published 2004 under ISBN 9780820012070 and ISBN 0820012076.