I'll spare you the after photo's.I’m wondering if Texas is the rattlesnake capital of the world. The wife and I stopped at a nice wayside near Amarillo a few years ago, and there was a sign next to the facilities warning about rattlesnakes.
I'll spare you the after photo's.I was a member in the early ‘90s at The Cliffs golf course before it expanded into a plush club. It’s located WNW of Fort Worth and Palo Pinto on Possum Kingdom Lake.
There were signs everywhere warning of rattlers! Lots of rough areas that no one would enter to look for an errant golf ball. One rattler skin 13 ft. long on the wall in the pro shop.
Playing with another couple, we men teed off and the ladies began driving to their tee... then suddenly were backing up. There was a rattler lying across the 5 ft. wide cart path getting warm and hanging over both edges of the path.
On a par 3 green approached over a canyon and with a rock face, one lady with us was lining up her putt when a rattler crawled up onto the green and was only about 4 feet behind her.
The area is full of rattlesnakes. When I was 12-14, my dad and I would spend a week each Summer at a friend’s cabin on a slough of the lake. I’d walk the area with a shotgun and kill 3-4 rattlers a day, when we weren’t out fishin’.
Sorry for the long post, but this just brought back a LOT of memories.