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Hi guys!
It's been a while since i've posted. I've checked in from time to time, but for the most part I have been hibernating.

I just thought i'd share that my son's get a small magazine on turkey hunting, called Jake's and the fall 2006 has a short article on Texas indigo's called Indigo Go.

Basically, a photogropher was out in a ground blind doing some nature photography when an erebennus appeared. He got some good pics of it and even had it crawl through his blind. Some guys have all the luck!

Eric
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If Jesus is your co-pilot, you'd better change seats!

I have had a wild Indigo approach me three times. The first time I was about eight years old. I was with a little girl who got scared to death. This was in back of a trailer park that is still there, but is now in the middle of the city here in Ft. Lauderdale. All the grown ups we told said it was poisonous, (it was right by the water) but even at that age it seemed to me like a very curious and “friendly” snake. It inspired me to look it up in my elementary school library to find out if it was a water moccasin or not. I had to wait for another kid to return the checked out book, and we started talking about snakes and became best friends. That was really the start of my interest in snakes. I think not allowing Florida keepers to maintain and reproduce these snakes is idiotic, and an insult to the advances in herptoculture attributable to private non-professional keepers. And more ironic in my case, as this snake was the inspiration of my interest in the first place!

My mom with a big black snake of some sort...

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Great post and awesome picture!

It’s a funny story to me, because my very first experience with any wild snake was also with a young girl, in Massachusetts where I was born. We were walking on a huge house-sized boulder and she screamed her fool head off. I look down below us, and there is a big blue racer hauling butt away from us (two little four or five year olds) What made the biggest impression on me was how the snake was the one that seemed very afraid of us little kids, and how this girl reacted so crazy to something that was obviously scared to death of us. It didn’t make sense... Why, I don’t know, but I felt something for that poor misunderstood snake! I guess we can all relate to that somehow, no matter what your “story” is! When the indigo thing happened, again, what the grown ups were saying just didn’t make sense to what the actual experience was. It just hit home, maybe these snake things are getting a bad rap, I had to investigate this. And I guess I haven’t quite completed that task yet!