I worked at a country club in SC for more than a decade. Our course was built in a wetland area and we had just about every critter imaginable to include water moccasins, copperheads, rattle snakes, and a variety of non venomous snakes. For the most part, you'll be able to tell a water moccasin from a black racer by its thickness. Water moccasins have a thicker body including the head. Black racers tend to have longer, skinnier bodies. Those of us who worked there knew to stay out of the brush, stay out of the woods, and never ever put your hand into any body of water for any reason. Pretty good advice for here, too.
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