omg! there is snakes in our lake too. they are corn snakes or copper heads and black snakes.i was about to get in the lake one day and a snake was swimming right near wear i was about to get in...yes i ran for miles lol

our cartaker came down to the waterfront to remove a watersnake....not good to have them swimming near the kids. and it was sat on the beach. he grabbed a kyak paddle and sliced the snake in half with the blade!! and then threw it in the bush!

lol ditto on the snakes thing!!! we had Black-rat skates and copper heads and corn snakes!!! the black ones cant hurt u though and im not too sure about the corn snakes but the copper heads are really dangerous!!!! i saw loads of snakes last summer!!!! but i quiet like snakes too so i was ok!!! lol

i think the black rat snake is the one we had too, cos was told its not poisnous either is the corn snakes. but we had copper heads aswell and i nearly had a close shave a couple of times with them. the camp director cut the copper head heads off. left the black ones just moved them on

we had lots of snakes too. especially if it rained...they all came out to play once it had stopped

Oh, I REALLY didn't need to know that.

One of my OPC kids saw the snake first, and then of course told the others in our groups - though we tried to get him not to. Then ofcourse they told the next group...

I didn't like that thunderstorm much - it was so wet! And it would have been a really awesome day without it. Although I did kinda have fun when we were all gather in longhouse singing for what felt like hours!

snakes i didn't think about things like that!! ha ha this is gonna be an experience!! can't wait to put my own camp memories up after summer '09

As much as I though I'd freak out about the snakes I had a weird sort of 'ooooo look' fascination with them - except the water ones!

That was just what I as going to put lmao! SNAKES!

We only really had grass snakes, and they were tiny. We had more issues with chipmunks...we had couches in our cabin in a big common area, and they live there the months that we're not at camp. So when we moved in we disturbed them...my co woke up one morning with one sitting on her, it was hilarious. We just chased them with brooms...

Was it Alvin, Simon or Theadore whocaused most issues?

How did you know? The scoundrels.

We had problems with mice (lots and lots of mice!) and skunks!!
I HATE skunks:(

Ugh, ditto on hating skunks. I like most animals but skunks...just gross. We used to drive by where a skunk had obviously sprayed and we could still smell it, even a good mile away!

One of the few things I'm not looking forward to seeing again...

Oooh i've always wanted a corn snake as a pet! It's those and rat snakes (the black ones) that are ok and not venomous. Copperheads and Cottonmouths on the other hand....