Moccasins do sometimes crawl up on branches overhanging water but
they're not likely to get very high or climb anything very steep.
They're great swimmers but lousy tree climbers. You can easily tell a
moccasin in the water as they are the only US water snake that lift
their head out of the water while swimming.
Chuck Norcutt
Chris Barker wrote:
> No joke, Chuck. I'm sure that there are loads of snakes in Florida,
> but not much vegetation in which they might hide in Tampa or on the
> beach at Fort de Soto. We did visit the inland parks, such as Crystal
> River/Springs, but we generally avoided long grass.
>
> That visit entailed 2 encounters with snakes. As well as the one I
> described this morning, my wife and 2 small sons were in a canoe on a
> small river when they drifted into an overhanging tree. I was alerted
> to excitement by their calls but went on reading my newspaper about 50
> yards away ...
>
> ... it turned out that there had been a snake on one of the branches
> of the overhanging tree and they got quite close to it. My wife had
> the bright idea of knocking it off the branch, perhaps to drown it,
> only to be seriously shocked that it swam towards her! We learned a
> bit more about snakes from that; and I learned not to be reading a
> newspaper when they were having "exciting" times :-)
>
> I was in sooo much pooh!
>
> Chris
>
> On 1 Jul 2008, at 11:57, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> Surely you're joking? There are four types of venomous snakes in the
>> US: copperhead, rattlesnake, water moccasin and coral snake. All four
>> are found in Florida although copperheads are only in the extreme
>> north
>> above Tallahassee. Copperheads cause more bites than any other type
>> of
>> venomous snake in the US but their bite is generally not too serious.
>
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