Python Huntress Delights Marco Island Woman’s Club

The Marco Island Woman’s Club members were enthralled with their February guest speaker - Amy Siewe, one of 100 professional Florida python hunters - and one of only15 women hunters! Forty-four-year-old Amy relocated to Collier County in 2019 and changed her life-long fascination with snakes into her profession. She is contracted by the South Florida Water Management District to capture and euthanize the invasive Burmese Pythons that have devastated the Everglades’ small mammal population. Amy has caught over 300 pythons, including a 110 pound, 17’3” solo catch and placed second in the 2020 “python bowl”. She has learned how to skin the snakes and uses the tanned skins to make her own product line of beautiful bracelets and Apple watch bands. Learn more about the Python Huntress at www.pythonhuntress.com.

In other business, we welcomed five new members and thanked Lisa Bourdon, J.McLaughlin’s Marco Island store manager, for hosting a Sip and Shop fundraising event to benefit the Club’s Charitable Foundation/Student Scholarships on January 20th. It was a fun and profitable event thanks to all of J.McLaughlin’s customers that shopped for a good cause. For information on upcoming events see our newly designed website at www.marcowomansclub.com.

The Club holds monthly lunch meetings at the Marco Island Yacht Club on the first Wednesday of the month, October thru May. We invite you to attend a lunch meeting as a paid guest ($41) to learn more about us in person. To attend a meeting or get membership information, contact Membership Chair, Caitlin Robinson Carlson, at MIWCEL@gmail.com or 239-692-5619. And follow us on Facebook!