I had always thought when people told me stories of how 'the snake dropped from the tree limb into my boat' that that was an exaggeration, or an old wives tale, until that water moccasin dropped in right behind us. We were in kayaks with skirts so there was no way the snake would fall in the boats, but it certainly could have fallen 'in my lap' so to speak which I think is worse than in the bottom of a canoe! I guess I would have flipped over and rolled and hoped he was gone when I came back up.