Today was one of the most exciting days, since arriving at this lake house. First surprise of the day was an encounter with a corn snake. Next to it was a weird yellow young tarantula looking spider, as much as I hate to say this, but we will get to that in another blog. Last but not least I finally caught a fish!

 The corn snake was found by my dad trying to move wood around. It was very well camouflaged, so I had a little trouble seeing it at first. The corn snake got its name by its distinctive, nearly checkered pattern of the snake’s belly scales that resembles the kernels of variegated corn. It hunts relatively small prey like mice, rats and other creatures that eat the harvested corn, that are in their size rang. Their length varies from 2 feet to almost 6 feet! They live up to 6-8 years but in captivity they can live up to 23 years (the record for the oldest corn snake in captivity was 32 years). They are also one of the most popular snakes to have as a pet because they are nonvenomous and chill creatures. I even held it, it tried to bite me though, but its mouth was too small for my thumb.