Swimming snake spotted in lake - Glens Falls Post-Star
The Latest Dear Abby: Wife won't share her workday after husband shuts her out DEAR ABBY: I have been married for 36 years to a woman who is a pediatric physical therapist. This results in emotional, intense workdays for my wife. The weather was so perfect even a 4-foot snake decided to take a swim. Bolton residents Jim and Robin Neumann were out on Lake George in a powerboat just north of the Narrows one serene evening last week when they saw something in the distance. “I was watching it, and as I went by I thought, ‘That looks a lot like a snake,’” Jim Neumann said. It was the first sighting for his wife, Robin. The northern water snake is similar in appearance and has been seen in Lake George as well. Swimming isn’t uncommon behavior for the native reptiles that are known to live in areas like the Tongue Mountain Range and turn up on the lake’s islands. The snakes tend to migrate 1. 3 to 2. 5 miles from their den, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation website. When the snakes, classified as “threatened” in New York, swim to the camping islands in Lake George, they’re captured and relocated. Source: poststar.com
