Well - I'm not so sure that we don't have water moccasins here - nice swampy, bog in the back and I've seen plenty of snakes in the pond. One I've ID'd as a northern water snake, but haven't gotten close enough to the other so see for sure what they were.

As far as Gators, they are definitely coming this way! They are in the red river that separates Texas and Oklahoma and will do doubt find a way up river if there's food to be had....and by that I don't mean my legs!