Those big rocks look perfect to camp next to. ...we’d
already been there a day and a night and most of another day when I spotted the
snake! This particular rock was about 8
feet from our trailer and about 15 feet from the door.
As near as we could tell with numerous photos and looking at
it through the binoculars it was a Western Diamondback Rattlesnake! The hair on the back of my neck stood up and
then I thought about us all running around in bare feet the day before. Then it moved!
This snake and probably all of her friends can climb
rocks.
She travelled up and over the rock, through a shrub into a
new den where we could see very little of her.
Needless to say we were very cautious of where we walked and
stepped. Meanwhile the Scout troop next
door was crashing around in the dark playing capture the flag. Apparently none of them had had a snake
encounter...yet.
We saw but didn’t hear the rattle- that’s a good thing. In the
Rockies at least the bears leave tracks!
It was great for us to have a non -drastic reminder that we are guests
in the desert.
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