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I have had many encounters with snakes. Big ones, small ones, venomous and non venomous. In the toilet and bath tub to car and shed, the poison ropes are everywhere...
So, I’m ten years old and fishing with my buddy in a john boat on lake Okeechobee. About thirty minutes later we spot something swimming towards us.
I look at Donnie, my fishing friend, and say, damn that looks like a cottonmouth.
Damn snake tried to get into the boat. Thank the Lord we had paddles. Sumbitch was determined to get into the boat.
Gave me a new respect for the outdoors.
5.56mm
Went kayaking once and a snake fell out of a tree onto my wife’s kayak.
Haven’t been kayaking ever again...................😉