Thread:BTR180/@comment-27550231-20180122054140/@comment-28358106-20180202204821

There was a giant cottonmouth that used to sunbathe by the waterfall in my backyard. She was enormous, big round, coppery brown body, at least 5 feet long, fat as a baseball in her middle. She'd be coiled up on the bank like some water dragon, and when I'd come to the upper ledge she'd disappear like a shadow into the water. Eventually I learned to sneak up and sit quietly, and not spook her.

One year I spotted her laying eggs a little ways down the sandy bank. I kept coming back every few days until I found the nest open, all the little eggs hatched.