California has a whale festival and Alaska an annual bald eagle fete. But is it any surprise that Florida takes the cake as the wackiest in the union, bypassing its omnipresent alligators to spotlight less captivating critters like earthworms and swamp frogs? On the east coast, near Vero Beach in the tiny town of Fellsmere (pop. roughly 5,500), the tradition of frog gigging in local marshes is the inspiration for the Fellsmere Frog Leg Festival that takes place every January.