Pam Jones puts herself in the hands of a bayou pro as she heads upriver among snakes and ’gators. The thing is y’all, he explains, as a 2m alligator glides towards our boat, ’gators aren’t to be feared, as long as you respect them. This is no doubt of particular interest to the woman at the back of the boat by the bag of marshmallows. Turns out ’gators like to eat turtle eggs, and marshmallows look like turtle eggs ... can we see where this is heading? But the 1.2m adult rat snake on a cypress tree gets an especially big round of oohs and aahs.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 15, 2017 17:06 UTC