My mother saw a small snake while hiking last week and was wondering what it was. I don't have the best description of it, but I was hoping you could give me a couple possible IDs based on our location...?

We live in Trabuco Canyon, located in Southern California. It was seen in an oak forest canyon next to a creek. It was about a foot long, very slender, the color was slate brown, and it was adept at moving in the water. She says that they surprised it next to a small waterfall in the creek, and it dove over the waterfall and into the pond below and swam to safety.

Any ideas?
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1.0 Okeetee corn snake - Valis
0.1 Snow corn snake - Orlando
1.0 Crested gecko - Lampkin
1.0 Golden gecko - Nosferatu
0.0.1 House gecko - Gigan
0.0.2 Chinese tree dragons - Trapezoid & Trapezium
1.1 cats - Moony and Lucky
7.0 betta fish

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