Used to go swimming with a couple of my buddies in a special, secret spot on
Citico Creek -- 12 feet deep, with a big tree leaning out over the creek you
could walk out on and dive off -- near my hometown of Vonore, Tennessee, And
one day, as I was lolling about and sort of just floating downstream, I saw
there was a water moccasion swimming right along beside me. That's got to be
the fastest I have ever swum/swam/swimmed -- whatever the hell it is -- to get
back on dry land.
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
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From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Molly would probably have just slid off into the water before the
> interloper could reach her but trying to sit on her would be inadvisable
> in any case. She often had babies around her as well and going near her
> then would be *very* inadvisable.
>
> Every once in a while I'd find a baby water moccasin sitting on the edge
> of the boardwalk, generally hiding fairly well under some leaves. I
> would gently urge them back into the water because I just knew that
> someone was going to come along and try to pick up one of those plastic
> snakes. :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> Johann Thorsson wrote:
> > Potential Darwin Award winners.
> >
> > J
> >
> >> One day I noticed a woman observing the heron for quite some time but
> >> didn't speak to her and paid it little attention as I was in
> >> conversation with some other visitors. A bit later on I happened to
> >> pass by her again and as I did so she stopped me, pointed to the heron
> >> and asked why we had "plastic birds" stuck in the water at a wildlife
> >> refuge. But not nearly as bad a mistake as the visitor I apprehended
> >> who was climbing through the rail fence to go sit on "Molly" the 8 foot
> >> gator in the other pond. He thought she was plastic too. Just two of
> >> many stories from the refuge.
> >>
> >> Chuck Norcutt
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