Mississippi water moccasin

Several summers ago, an excursion to Wall Doxey Park, in North Mississippi, revealed an obvious snake basking in the sun by the pier.

My fear, as many also have, is that I will step exactly upon a snake unwittingly and become inflicted with a poisonous bite!  This snake was easy to find and appeared to be basking asleep by the pier, when we first walked up as seen in the video.

The cottonmouth or water moccasin is a poisonous viper found in Mississippi and other parts of the Southeastern United States.

We approached the snake with a snake hook, but did not touch or aggravate the snake.

As seen in the video of the water moccasin encounter, we did not overly agitate the viper, and it peacefully crawled away with an easy escape route.

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