I love snakes and sharks

[Melonfeud]

I absolutely hate snakes and totally afraid of them. Mostly because I have three not so great experiences with them. One time my older brother and I were playing wiffle ball and all of sudden he tells me to don't move. A big rat rat snake slithered thru my legs. Another time I was swimming in a lake and two men were fishing off the dock. I got out of the water and I heard one the guys saying he thinks he has good one on his line. So I waited to what he caught. He reeled it in and than gave a good tug. All of sudden this cottonmouth came flying out of the water on his fishing line and landed about 10 ft from me. They told me to go as they killed the snake with a paddle. The third time I was swimming in a lake and I swam underneath this dock. As I was swimming out to a dock in the middle of the lake I heard my mom yelling for me to stop as she pointed to two looked like sticks swimming about 8 ft from me. They were copperheads and they came out just a few minutes after I swam under the dock. I guess I disturbed them. Yeah, snakes and me don't go good together.

Thanks for " sparking" some of my faded memories of the distant past of my travels, as but in the Midwest Ohio river valley, I'd spend many solo tours on a enduro dirt bike on a weekend (or extended forays of weeks at a time,ie; read that as "gone native") one time after a thunderhead up river a day earlier, the river picked up volume and current, I was perched up on a bluff just watching and a tree branch floated about mid-river,bobbing and twisting so much so that I thought it was a pretty good sized snake and figured to draw a bead on it with that lever peep sight .22 that shot in laser like fashion,,, well,about the time I'd figured out it was just a tree limb,,, a big snake swam out from under a weeping willow trees root wad casing-liner about 30 yards up river and on my side of the river bank,it vectored to meet it, I guess to either fight or ****k it,,,,,,IDK? but when it got about 6' away from it turned around and headed back to it's base,,,, I laughed to myself and thought it fooled that snake TOO!, and admired that snake as it definitely swam to mid river with a purpose in mind and so I steered a wide berth on that tree and left him alone


(True story)

 

[Melonfeud]

Them gat damned casing-liners @Melonfeud!!!!

It's those gat damned casing-liner's that feel compelled to send download links to yer' personal casing-liner that fuzz me up past the pissed off ,straight to the Gallagher's melon head sledge hammer smash maneuver casing-liner status

 

[trickblue]

This should send you into a frenzy...

 

[Trouty]

This should send you into a frenzy...

 

[YosemiteSam]

The scariest snake incident I ever had growing up was when I was playing golf at a local golf course as a teenager. There was a water hazard that was around 6 feet deep, but due to a drought we had that year, it only had about a foot of water in it. Of course I hit my ball in there.

I went into the hazard very carefully as the sides were a steep drop off. As I got closer to the water at the bottom of it started to curve a little bit so I was using my club to brace myself. Slowly, I got close enough to my ball and was able to scoop it up with my club, and everything seemed good.

So, I very carefully started moving backwards up the curve part of the hazard and right as I moved my foot, a 3 foot water moccasin shot out of a hole my foot was standing on and immediately hit the water. I stood there for a moment thinking, "What the **** just happened?" The hazard had steep edges and my friends were going to have to help me out so there was no way to get out really fast.

So, then I was focused on the water wondering if the snake was coming back. I then moved my other foot for the first time to back up. I am really am not making this up .. as soon as I lifted my other foot, there was a hole under it and another 3 foot water moccasin shot out and headed for the water. Needless to say, I had had enough. I dropped the ball, my club, grabbed the edge of the hazard and yelled at my friends to pull me out, who by the way were laughing their butts off.

I lost the ball but was able to get my club because an older golfer walked up and he had what I guess was an extendable ball retriever so we used it to drag my golf club out. That was the last time I ever went after a ball in a water hazard and have always paid close attention while walking in sand traps ever since as well.

Maybe it helped my golf game back then because I imagined every hazard as a snake-infested Raiders of the Lost Ark type of pit just waiting for me to fall in.

That's funny. In 1986, I was living on a naval base in Belle Chase, LA just outside of New Orleans. My brother and I were walking to the Teen Center on base which you had to walk a path through the woods. He was wearing flipflops and he was in front of me. As he stepped forward a water moccasin raced across the path and slithered between his foot and the top of the flipflop. He felt it, but it was moving so quickly he didn't actually see what touched him rofl.

He looked back and me and said, what was that. Of course, I recoiled the second I saw the snake and when he saw me recoiled like I did he about jumped out of this skin rofl. He didn't know where or where to look to see what scared me hah. That was funny as hell. Stupid moccasins.

My friends used to go swimming in a stock tank that was behind these woods where we used to build tree houses. There was a water moccasin there too, but we used swim anyhow and keep a eye on him as he would always be swimming around the tank. If he started coming towards us, we will start throwing stuff at him and he would duck under water and then re-appear much further away.

 

[Rockport]

They are. And they’re gorgeous.

Did you know that they are part of the diet of Nile crocs?

No sure didn’t.