Tell me about the snakes!!!
We were in Florida 5th - 19th August and during the first week the 2 boys went out to the pool (they can change quicker than us oldies!!) and are both competent swimmers, luckily they did not get straight in the water and within a couple of minutes both came back in screaming - 'there's a snake in the pool'. Right I thought, there having a game here as DG (my mum) is absolutley petrified of the things and can't even watch them on the TV, so out DH and I go and there sure enough was a snake, about 18" long swimming aroung in the pool... erghhhhhhhhh.
DH and I used the pole with a net on and eventually caught the slippery little thing, it was rearing up at us at all times, and then as the villa backed on to a conservation area we let it go out there. But we did check the pool every day after that before the children went out there - thankfully he never returned.