re: Killed a rattlesnake today in the woods

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One of my worst fears is stepping on a rattler out in the woods

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i now have an even greater fear--freaky jungle snakes on handrails!

In Costa Rica last week, I was descending the stairs from my friend's house (it's up like 12 flights of stairs on a big jungly hill), in the rain, and I look down to see that my thigh and hand were inches from the head of a 4-foot-long crazy snake who'd slithered from a tree onto and around the rail.

He had a diamond pattern and a viper-like head, but I'm pretty sure that was just a defensive posture trying to look like a pit viper. I'm fairly certain he was a blunt-headed vine snake--weak-venom, rear-fanged. LINK

But they have Fer De Lances there everywhere which are mean and wicked. I had a nightmare about one last night. I was holding it by its head trying to avoid getting pricked. Got pricked. May have lost my hand had I not woken up screaming like a girl.

(blunt-headed vine snake)

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(my nightmare snake--juvenile fer de lance--ferK that--ugh)


Pardon hijack, carry on.