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cottonmouth snake at Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia in March 1985

Kevin paddled me right up to this cottonmouth, which was sunning itself on a patch of floating muck. As long as we didn't mess with them, the snakes and alligators left us alone. The fear of snakes dropping into the canoe off overhanging limbs was overstated.