I had to drive 500 miles to Ontario Canada to see my first rattlesnake, for an area that can have 8-10 feet of snow on the ground in the winter that just seems wrong!

When I was in Largo Florida in 2009 there was a couple of news reports about people getting bitten by pygmy rattlesnakes. One was a guy cutting his grass wearing flip flops, and the other was an old lady with bad eyes that thought it was a stick on the sidewalk.

That was my first and only time further south than Virginia Beach, I live in the country here and have a lot of snakes in my yard, but poisonous ones are 70-80 miles away.

It was kind of interesting to be sitting by the backyard pool in Florida and see a 5 foot long snake slither by! LOL