Missouri Reptiles

It’s time to go, the time is now. . . Oh yeah, I’m not Dr Suess. But it’s time to start moving over to the new site. Don’t forget to change my feed in your reader and I do hope I’ll see you over there. All the old stuff will remain here, but in 1 day (Hello, is this thing on?!)  there will be nothing new here(quit procrastinating). So change your links, pretty please and come play with me over there. We’ll have just as much fun, maybe more! You never know what’s in store.  (Dang you Suess)

A word of warning that the new place is, well, new. It still needs some cleaning up and rearranging, some prettifying really but I promise to not make you do any work, I’ll just dust around you. It won’t be long until you wanna take your shoes off, grab a soda and relax there. Heck you can come in your jammies if you like. I don’t mind at all. Maybe we can have a pillow fight!  Woo hoo!

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Turtles are pretty common along Missouri roads and we happened upon this guy on a dead end road so I was able to take a few moments to admire him. I don’t know if you can tell, but he’s pretty good size.

When I moved that rock from in front of him he decided to retreat and peek.

{Snake alert for Aims}

We decided to try to find a cache at Jolly Mill but as we crossed the bridge (the bridge we were on is the third photo from the top) we saw this swimming in the water below.

This water moccasin (western cottonmouth) was no baby either, he was big, and he wasn’t alone, we counted three of them.

See the fish below him? How cool.

That is one huge crawdad!

There were some nests on the bottom side of the bridge, and hanging out of one was. . .a snake skin! EEEK! I’m outta here!

Btw: we did NOT go after the cache.

tags: turtle  snake  photos  missouri  vacation 2008