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Besides Gopher snakes Ventura has it's share of Red Runners and Rattlers...not to mention Tarantulas!saw a garter snake the other day at the Redwood Curtain
saw a gopher snake at Sylmar
saw a gopher snake at Ventura
saw a few rattlesnakes at Wrightwood
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My friend and I walked up on a 2-3 foot long copperhead laying across the fairway on #6 at Terramont in Woodlands Tx. My foot stepped down and he was laying out about 8 inches in front of my foot...I freaked and jumped back, my friend walked up to him and he coiled up quick, he wasn't moving, he was standing his ground..my friend threw a few disc down on him as he struck at them and them stepped on him and cut his head off with a dx Teerex. (there are littel kids all over that park or he would have left him alone)
Next week I'm walking a nature trail with my son when he hears something rattleing about 5 feet ahead of us and about 2 ft off the trail, we stopped to look in and see if we could see him - we couldn't - and just as I was going to reach down and pick up a stick to move the grass around I realized the stick was his body about 10 inches away from my foot - we both freaked and took off - about a minute later the wind blew and I saw this long black thing dropping from a tree down right beside me out of the corner of my eye - I about pushed my son over running away from it like a little girl - it was just a big stick falling out of the tree from the wind blowing - but my son (16) isn't ever going to let me live that one down hahah...yeah snakes scare the crap out of me
I was playing Harry Myers in Rockwall, TX a few weeks ago. I drove hole 5 with my putter and it ended up past the basket on the other side of some standing water. The water looked to be ony a few inches deep and there was a section of fence and a couple of logs to step on to get across to the other side. I proceeded to step on the first log only to have it start sinking on me. In order to prevent getting wet I jumped forward to the fence section. Then it started to sink so I had to jump to the next thing, then the next thing until I finally was able to jump to the other bank. I didn't have time to think as I was doing it, only enough time to react instintively to keep from getting wet. As I landed heavily on the other side, a black snake about 2 or 3 feet long uncurled and shot into the water just inches to the left of where I landed. It all happended so fast that I didn't even have time to get scared. I just shutter to think what would have happened if I had landed on the snake! I'm not even sure what kind of snake it was, but it is probably a safe assumption to say it was a water moccasin.
When we would corner a gopher snake it would start to shake its tail in the grass to sound like a rattle snake. Very cool!..How are you all so good at recognizing types of snakes. I don't think I could distinguish one snake from another. They're usually hard to get a good look at. I suppose I might recognize the rattle of a rattlesnake. But how do you know it is a copperhead or water moccasin?
That spider is frickin' huge!!! Not a big fan of snakes or spiders. I have seen some strange looking spiders at my local course, but that one posted by midnight beats them all...
I need some help with this one.:
About a year ago, my brother and I were walking from the #16 basket, to the #17 tee at River Grove Park in Kingwood. All of the sudden we saw a lightning fast movement shoot across the ground in front of us , and we saw a 6-7 black snake shoot up this tree in front of us, he looked at us, and took off faster than any snake I have ever seen. I mean this snake was faster than a rabbit.
I would like to know what it was that I saw. Here is the best way I can describe it:
6-7 feet long
Black with a yellow or off while stripe down its belly, very narrow stripe.
Moved lightning fast. I mean, if you blinked, you would have missed it.
Anyone have any idea what I saw?