I've read that 90% of snake bites to men are on the hands/arms and 90% of snake bites to women are on the feet/legs. Something about women having enough sense to leave things that have a poisonous bite alone. Love the video, but be careful!!
Thanks. Good point. But I don't handle the posionous snakes. I have before, but I don't make it a point to do so and haven't here in Florida. I don't want to bother the snakes like that.
Today I followed a large cottonmouth I noticed swimming through a swamp and later, after climbing a tree spotted another giant specimen. But I noticed later the snake was not in the frame. I barely missed it, due mostly to my focus on the snake and not to what was in the small viewfinder of my camera.
I was disappointed when I found that out because it would have been such good footage. But the moccasin was going down into the fallen cypress tree it was on, and I wasn't sure if it was going inside or under and back around to me, so my focus was on the sizable snake. It was at least the size of my bicep muscle, and for you ladies, that means it was nice and big
Btw, when I was up in one of the trees I climbed, the feeling was so relaxing. I can see why kids like tree houses. I was up where the squirrel build their nests and it was peaceful way up high overlooking the huge cypress and closer to the blue sky above. There were ants way up there too.
Maybe I'll put together some of that footage soon in a little video. Wish I had this much passion about a job. It's something though, friends that I have who are in industries that make a lot of money are basically in gigs that cheat people.
I have a friend who does loans. Her company was a part of some kind of ponzi scheme. That friend was paid well over the last several years. Another friend called me last night who works in the medical field. He tells me all the time how the hospitals and doctors have meetings about how they are low on this or that sort of test and need to perform more of certain 'money making' tests irrespective of need. "We need more Cat scans." Can you imagine. They love the $5000 tests. He tells me that when someone is dying with a terminal illness, rather than letting them die with dignity they do every test they can charge for. He also says that if someone comes to the hospital just having done a certain test the hospital duplicates the test already done and tries to 'beat' the other hospital regarding sending in the files so they will be the ones who get paid.
I worked in the 'helping profession' where medicade and/or madicare were milked and I always complained. They didn't like me or my perspective. I guess that's why I don't care for government or even insurance as a concept medically. We don't know or often care what we are paying for because we aren't paying for it directly. Anyway, sorry for the rant. I have been enjoying my wildlife encounters of late and avoiding the reality of having to earn income and figure out how I'm going to do that. I just wish... well, no need to expound.
I'll try to get some more good video up soon. Thanks for the input. Florida is a beautiful place.
I thought I caught that in part of the film you took.
