Gotta remember not to attract attention near a water snake
I happened to see a water snake (not sure if it was poisonous) coming my way, so I thought I'd scare it off using an oar to splash the water. I should have remembered what happened over 20 year ago when the same thing happened and instead of scaring the snake off, it increased its speed and slithered faster towards me. With only 10' to go, I fumbled bringing in the anchor and then put the TM on high speed to get the H away from it. :yikes
As it swam toward shore, it reared up with half its body out of the water still swimming with mouth wide open as if to say - DON'T DO THAT AGAIN! nononoNeedless to say, I had to pee in the worst way after it crawled on land.