So today ended Ronnie's problem at his sail club dock...for now. On Tuesday, after we finished up sailing around Fort Phantom, Ronnie was trying to show me the dock joints that needed to be welded back together when i noticed a shiny snake-like body that was indeed a snake. I was calm about telling Ronnie, not wanting to startle him or the big fella below the boards. Well Ronnie didn't take the calm announcement as planned. He did an extremely fast push up from the dock to get away from the snake with a spasm.
After the snake got away Tuesday, we revisited his little home under the dock on Wednesday.
So today ended Ronnie's problem at With a close shot from Ronnie's gun, the snake took off for the water
and we went searching for an hour until he came back to his resting spot. Next we tried to pin him with a steel rod. He attacked the rod and eventually got away again. Well tonight I went up there early to see if he was back. The first crack between the boards...I saw his head, sitting and cooling off under the dock. When Ronnie came, he brought a nice large sharp piece of metal to chop the snake's head off. The big guy put up a good fight, bleeding all over the place until his head & body were separated. Well that head that I had seen earlier...well it wasn't the one that had just got chopped off. There was another one down there under the dock. The metal weapon Ronnie brought would barely fit in between the boards, so he decided to use some excessive force.
A 40 pound rock should do the trick. As he dropped the rock on the metal at our estimated place, it broke the wooded handle on the metal. We thought it was a big miss, but turned out to be a dead-on hit, breaking the snake in two at the neck. It turned out that the first killed snake was a mother. It had birthed a baby snake right with the blow to its neck. After Ronnie brought the dead snakes up on top of the dock, I shook two more baby killers from the snake. Jayden was enjoying poking the snakes, making them squirm. This was a first for me, delivering a baby...more of a plus, delivering a baby of a dead headless snake(probably the last too). Here are some pictures of the mess.
After the snake got away Tuesday, we revisited his little home under the dock on Wednesday.
So today ended Ronnie's problem at With a close shot from Ronnie's gun, the snake took off for the water
and we went searching for an hour until he came back to his resting spot. Next we tried to pin him with a steel rod. He attacked the rod and eventually got away again. Well tonight I went up there early to see if he was back. The first crack between the boards...I saw his head, sitting and cooling off under the dock. When Ronnie came, he brought a nice large sharp piece of metal to chop the snake's head off. The big guy put up a good fight, bleeding all over the place until his head & body were separated. Well that head that I had seen earlier...well it wasn't the one that had just got chopped off. There was another one down there under the dock. The metal weapon Ronnie brought would barely fit in between the boards, so he decided to use some excessive force. A 40 pound rock should do the trick. As he dropped the rock on the metal at our estimated place, it broke the wooded handle on the metal. We thought it was a big miss, but turned out to be a dead-on hit, breaking the snake in two at the neck. It turned out that the first killed snake was a mother. It had birthed a baby snake right with the blow to its neck. After Ronnie brought the dead snakes up on top of the dock, I shook two more baby killers from the snake. Jayden was enjoying poking the snakes, making them squirm. This was a first for me, delivering a baby...more of a plus, delivering a baby of a dead headless snake(probably the last too). Here are some pictures of the mess.
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