Moccasins have been known to drop from low-hanging tree branches into a boat
passing underneath. I heard of one guy who shot a hole in his new aluminum
boat when that happened.
A former co-worker of mine thought it would be cute to run his boat over a
moccasin he observed swimming in a lake. The propellor flipped the snake
into the boat, not a happy outcome.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 5:01 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: The rattlesnake
> 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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