Having spent some time in the outdoors, it is reasonably common to encounter wildlife. This encounter was surprising and startled me at how close I came to this wildlife. Near where I live there is a concrete walking path along a river. The walking path is very well traveled, at any time during the day you will pass several other people. But on this fateful day, I was strolling along and looked up to see a 4-ft rattlesnake waiting to cross the sidewalk. It wasn't quite within striking distance, but another thing that was kind of disconcerting was how completely relaxed the snake seemed. Talk about no fear, the thing was not coiled up in any way. It was just all stretched out lazily waiting for me to get by so he could slither across the concrete sidewalk. Now it really isn't clear whether it was a male or female, it just seems like all snakes should be male. Anyway, after carefully giving it a very wide berth, it simply sat there with this little snakey tongue slithering in and out. And so I went on my way warning other people headed in that direction that there is a big snake down the path.
Generally people say that wildlife is more afraid of you than you are of them. But in this case it seemed like we both had a fairly high degree of respect for each other. The snake was patiently waiting, and I was gingerly stepping quite a ways around the snake.
😅. 🐍
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