Dixon Lake: Salmon & Snakes

Once you start looking for odd signs, it's hard to go anywhere for a nice afternoon walk without seeing signs around every corner.  Here are two from our visit to Dixon Lake (Escondido CA).  "Salmon Poisoning Disease" at the fish cleaning station and a bin for dumping all the snakes.


It's good to know that there's a fish-borne illness.  Better than not knowing.  

But the snake can had us thinking halfway home: were there snakes in there when we took the photo?  How many?  Were they feeling "rescued" or just baking in the sun?  Was that can just for the park rangers to use?  It seems like, if that was the case, they would know what the can was for without alarming everyone.  Maybe they have to say there are snakes because people will drop their trash into anything that looks like a can, no matter what the can says ... but maybe (just maybe) "Snake Rescue" will register as being the wrong place to drop your dirty paper plates.

Even after we got home, we had questions.  Who gets to put the snakes into the can?  Is that reserved for the senior ranger, or is that the dirty job for the newbie to figure out?  Finally, is there a snake bucket emptying service?  Maybe a special truck comes by and a little metal arm tips the can of snakes into a bigger can of snakes on the back of a truck and drives off to some kind of snake haven.

I jest, of course.  I'm sure the can of snakes is taken to some appropriate location and the snakes get to go about their business.  But, maybe there should be a sign to clear up the mystery?  Say the snakes are taken to So-and-So Sanctuary every day at 2pm, or visitors may just write odd blog posts full of hypothetical scenarios when they get home.


 

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