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BMG
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Baja Rat Snake
We came across an interesting snake on the hill behind La Paz the other day. Not being a snake expert, I took photos and looked it up back home. Looks
like it was a Baja Rat Snake. Turns out they are rarely seen during daylight hours. It looked to be about 4' long, but Ana wouldn't catch it so I
could measure it.
I think the world is run by C- students.
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Von
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Thats beautiful....i like the sequence i once was running here in mission trails SD. when i came upon a snake eating another snake it was cool.
READY SET.....................
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BMG
It looked to be about 4' long, but Ana wouldn't catch it so I could measure it.
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I can't believe it. How dare she 
A well informed Baja California traveler is a smart Baja California traveler!
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My old eyes must be failing me. Most rat snakes I've ever seen were visible to
the naked eye.
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Gal after my own heart!!!
I'm not a snake expert by any means, but...it's hard to get a size perspective without something of known size in the pic! Why didn't you hand Ana the camera & YOU go catch it?
Although in comparison to you, it'd look like a baby angle worm! OH WAIT! It
IS a baby angle worm! Now I understand why you wanted Ana to catch it! All the rat snakes I've seen here were black & a huge diameter as well as 5-6' length. If that's a rat
snake...maybe an immature one?? Never seen any snake that color...don't want to...prefer not to see any snake any species, color or length, anywhere!
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Fred
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The big ones that look like, the workers at Noth Beach in Los Barriles put 2 in the campgrounds and in one year they got rid of all the rats. Kinda
wierd to be having your morning coffee and they were sometimes just passing by to go down to the beach.
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Steve - Please get closer next time. It's hard for me to clearly see this guy. If he bites you, toss the camera to Ana before he swallows. He'll
be easier to see with you inside.
Nena
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
.....Oscar Wilde
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BMG
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Natalie Ann
Steve - Please get closer next time. It's hard for me to clearly see this guy. If he bites you, toss the camera to Ana before he swallows. He'll
be easier to see with you inside.
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Did Longlegs pay you?
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longlegsinlapaz
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BMG
| Quote: | Originally posted by Natalie Ann
Steve - Please get closer next time. It's hard for me to clearly see this guy. If he bites you, toss the camera to Ana before he swallows. He'll
be easier to see with you inside.
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Did Longlegs pay you? |
Moi?  Nope! So glad Ana
refused to catch it! I'm pretty sure Wiley has an anti-snake guest policy at social functions!
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Cypress
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That Baja Rat Snake looks a lot like a high desert "Bull Snake".
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I Like Mex, that's a great snake-charming suit you're wearing!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Paula
| Quote: | Originally posted by ILikeMex
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I Like Mex, that's a great snake-charming suit you're wearing! |
Hey now! When I really want to charm them I wear my BDay suite. Anyway that charm suite I'm wearing didn't work - he bit me
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Steve,
Get a telelens ....OR....stick to photographing anacondas.
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Gopher Snake
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BigWooo
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Russ
Gopher Snake |
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Bull snakes are a sub species of the Gopher snake or maybe the other way around.
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BMG
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vandenberg
Steve,
Get a telelens ....OR....stick to photographing anacondas.
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I attached a telephoto to my Instamatic but the duct tape let go just as I started shooting.
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David K
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OH YAH?
You guys holding gopher snakes had me remembering my 12 year old Sarah playing with a very live red diamondback... in 2003, south of Las Flores.
At the time I said she watched too much Steve Irwin (Crocodile Hunter)!
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Beautiful picture BigWoo. The very notion of touching them freaks me out but their beauty is amazing. My son runs these things down and grabs them.
Sometimes they bite him but he doesn't seem to care. Shudder !!!
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