My Chevrolet Express van Class B- camper
I have been camping in my 1990 Chevrolet Silverado Blazer 2-door for the last 20 years. When I removed the back seat there was just enough room for a 3/4 sized (Hollywood, as some people called them)...
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Last weekend we traveled to two more South Dakota campgrounds that we have never visited before. The first one was Snake Creek Recreation Area west of Platte, SD along the Missouri River.
We stayed there the first night then traveled on to Platte Creek Recreation Area about 20 miles south of there. Interestingly enough, we never saw any snakes at Snake Creek.
Our campsite at Platte Creek was very shady and private because during the week the occupancy is quite low.
We did have an exciting visitor about supper time. He/she was coming across the road heading right for one of the trees in our site. I was able to herd him into the grass beyond our site. But about 15 minutes later a second one came along with the birds harassing it. A western kingbird is pictured ascending in flight after ticking the snake on his head.
The snake (a non-poisonous bullsnake)did manage to elude the birds and get to our campsite tree. They do like to climb and are good at it.
My wife and I spent the next several hours watching the snake and taking pictures of it as it searched throughout the tree for bird nests. In this picture the snake is about 30 feet above our heads
I knew they were good climbers. I searched through my picture archives and found one that I got back about 1979 of a bullsnake climbing a brick wall to get at the swallow nests under the eaves of the building.
All in all, it was an interesting evening. We later went for a hike and forgot about the snake, so I don't know if he ever found any of the bird nests in the tree or got blown out by the rainstorm later in the night.
We stayed there the first night then traveled on to Platte Creek Recreation Area about 20 miles south of there. Interestingly enough, we never saw any snakes at Snake Creek.
Our campsite at Platte Creek was very shady and private because during the week the occupancy is quite low.
We did have an exciting visitor about supper time. He/she was coming across the road heading right for one of the trees in our site. I was able to herd him into the grass beyond our site. But about 15 minutes later a second one came along with the birds harassing it. A western kingbird is pictured ascending in flight after ticking the snake on his head.
The snake (a non-poisonous bullsnake)did manage to elude the birds and get to our campsite tree. They do like to climb and are good at it.
My wife and I spent the next several hours watching the snake and taking pictures of it as it searched throughout the tree for bird nests. In this picture the snake is about 30 feet above our heads
I knew they were good climbers. I searched through my picture archives and found one that I got back about 1979 of a bullsnake climbing a brick wall to get at the swallow nests under the eaves of the building.
All in all, it was an interesting evening. We later went for a hike and forgot about the snake, so I don't know if he ever found any of the bird nests in the tree or got blown out by the rainstorm later in the night.
