re: Coral snake, right?

Fishing, hunting, and catching snakes in Louisiana for the first 18 years of my life I never saw a coral. Probably because most of that time I was south of Lake Pontchartrain. Then, after the military service, I moved to the Florida Panhandle. So far I've seen 7 live corals plus 2 road kills. A total of five corals on my little 4 acres of pine forest over the past fifty something years. One snake was killed by one of my German Shepards. I hated that dog cause he liked to kill everything, including snakes. I caught a large coral snake in the swimming pool skimmer. I saw 3 others at different times appearing out of nowhere from the thick pine straw ground cover while I was observing some of my bee hives. I saw my first snake while standing with a group of people overlooking a spring boil-head at a state park. One lady In the group said,"I smell a snake." I didn't smell anything but started looking in the thick weeds and damn if I didn't see a nice sized coral snake. I found a stick and attempted to pin the snake's head and got the surprise of my life. There were two coral snakes in the weeds! That really confused me for a second until I realized that the snake had curled his tail into what appeared to be another head. I managed to pin the snake's real head and released it into an area away from people. It's apparent that coral snakes spend most of their time under leaf litter, pine straw and logs looking for their prey.