On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:33:47 -0400, gfretwell wrote:


I am not as sure about the snakes. I am out in the scrub park near the
house quite a bit and I have never seen a rattlesnake. There are plenty
of black snakes and a few coachwhips there. This may be why
http://gfretwell.com/wildlife/Blacksnake1.jpg
http://gfretwell.com/wildlife/Blacksnake2.jpg
http://gfretwell.com/wildlife/Blacksnake3.jpg
http://gfretwell.com/wildlife/Blacksnake4.jpg
http://gfretwell.com/wildlife/Blacksnake5.jpg
http://gfretwell.com/wildlife/Blacksnake6.jpg
http://gfretwell.com/wildlife/Blacksnake7.jpg

Great shots. That rattler seemed as long as the racer. I wonder if they
ever kill something that won't fit? After that meal, I'm surprised he
could move.



I took a stingray barb in the foot once on the beach on Sanibel but it
wasn't a bad shot. He poked up the barb to say "I'm sleeping here" and I
was walking carefully so it only went in about 1/2" I picked open the
wound with a fruit pick from the barmaid at the Hilton (now the Sanibel
Inn) beach bar and flushed it out with vodka.

That's the way John Wayne would have done it. ;-)