So my 11 year old son and I are playing out at Oregon Park in Marietta Ga. Everything was going fine until he shanks his upshot and it rolls in the creek at hole 15. About 20' past the basket there is a canopy of shrubby vines over the water with about a three to four foot bank on each side. One bank is a sheer drop and the other has somewhere around a 45 degree angle leading to the water. The water is only about six to eight inches deep and maybe four to five feet wide. Anyway, his disc found its way right in to middle of the creek and crawling in there to get it was no fun.
So here's the deal, I crawl down with a stick and try to fish the disc out with a keen eye for anything that looks remotely like a snake. After convincing myself that the coast was clear I began trying to fish the disc out of the water. I kept getting the disc on the end of the stick balanced perfectly on the rim only to watch it drop back in the creek again and again. I started to grow frustrated as the murky mud and silt from the bottom of this creek kept erupted and blinded any chance of seeing the disc. I took a few deep breaths and waited for the current to clear enough for me to find the disc again. Justin says, "Dad, I'll go to the other side and you can just flick the disc up to me". I say, "OK, good idea". As I start to fish at the disc again with Justin waiting on the other side, his thoughts fixed on losing his disc. Suddenly he slips and almost falls in the water. That scared me a little but then all of the sudden he yells "snake". He runs like the wind in the opposite direction and the snake drops off the bank into the water and swims for the other bank. Yes, right where I am squatted. I jump up like a rocket and get out of there. Thoughts of what could have happened to Justin run through my mind and I am thanking God that he didn't bite my son.
A few minutes later I called at some teens that were playing at a hole near where we were. I told them to be careful if their disc ended up in the creek and warned them of the snake. They came over and looked around and there was no snake to be found. I have no idea where it ran off to. Well, one of the kids reached down and picks up a little stick which must have had magical powers because he stuck it in the water, caught the rim of the disc, and flicked it over to us all in about 3 seconds. I was a little embarrassed by my lack of disc retrieval skills and the fact that that stupid snake scared me so bad. I had shaky hands for about ten minute after all this was over.
Well to make a long story short, it sucked! Anybody else have any snake stories out on the course?
So here's the deal, I crawl down with a stick and try to fish the disc out with a keen eye for anything that looks remotely like a snake. After convincing myself that the coast was clear I began trying to fish the disc out of the water. I kept getting the disc on the end of the stick balanced perfectly on the rim only to watch it drop back in the creek again and again. I started to grow frustrated as the murky mud and silt from the bottom of this creek kept erupted and blinded any chance of seeing the disc. I took a few deep breaths and waited for the current to clear enough for me to find the disc again. Justin says, "Dad, I'll go to the other side and you can just flick the disc up to me". I say, "OK, good idea". As I start to fish at the disc again with Justin waiting on the other side, his thoughts fixed on losing his disc. Suddenly he slips and almost falls in the water. That scared me a little but then all of the sudden he yells "snake". He runs like the wind in the opposite direction and the snake drops off the bank into the water and swims for the other bank. Yes, right where I am squatted. I jump up like a rocket and get out of there. Thoughts of what could have happened to Justin run through my mind and I am thanking God that he didn't bite my son.
A few minutes later I called at some teens that were playing at a hole near where we were. I told them to be careful if their disc ended up in the creek and warned them of the snake. They came over and looked around and there was no snake to be found. I have no idea where it ran off to. Well, one of the kids reached down and picks up a little stick which must have had magical powers because he stuck it in the water, caught the rim of the disc, and flicked it over to us all in about 3 seconds. I was a little embarrassed by my lack of disc retrieval skills and the fact that that stupid snake scared me so bad. I had shaky hands for about ten minute after all this was over.
Well to make a long story short, it sucked! Anybody else have any snake stories out on the course?
