[Cliff R]

I have no fear of snakes and used to catch and keep a lot of different non poisonous species when I was a kid. Two weeks ago we were on our way back from a Florida vacation and stopped in Calhoon GA for the night. We visited a rock park close to the hotel. When we exited the vehicle I told my grand kids to watch out for snakes. Seconds later they screamed SNAKE and I went running to see what they had stumbled onto. It was a big Black Rat Snake over 6' long. We took some pics with him then i gently picked him up and carried him to a nearly treeline so no one killed him. He was pretty friendly and didn't even try to bite me. Snakes like these are good for the environment as they ear hundreds of rats and mice every year. We have a few up here around the shop and a few corn snakes as well......