Snake on the boat….

Many not safe things about this, including the unexpected passenger
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/rattlesnake-kayak-california-fishing/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pd_required_reading&pupeml=41628

Oh wow no thank you!!

Same link, no paywall: https://archive.ph/dgYyW

He should have tried using if for bait...

The color variation on these animals is super cool.  Our northern pacific rattlesnakes are not aggressive, this episode shows it.  Pretty neat encounter.

He should have tried using if for bait...

+1 

This is nature talking to you!   

I eat my lunch at Lake Nagasawa almost every day. There's tons of rattlesnakes and ground squirrels there.

Saw this beauty at Edgewood Preserve last week