California Gardening: Who let the frogs out?, 1 by ecrane3

ecrane3 wrote:
This was my other encounter with a large snake--a nice big gopher snake laying across the path at one of the regional parks around here. My parents were visiting, and just after we'd passed the snake we saw a couple walking their dogs in the direction of the snake, so I warned them that there was a gopher snake in the path. They weren't too worried about it because they said they had just passed a rattler! Fortunately they must have scared the rattler off because we never saw it.