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I've never been lucky enough to work with them, but they really are so cool! You have awesome taste in snakes.

- They're so flat! It's probably to make them look like a scrap of bark in the water.

- They can close their nostrils at will to keep water out of them.

- They're the only snakes to have tentacles, which help them sense prey moving in the water.

- The way they eat is completely unique among snakes - they "bump" at fish with a side of their body, which creates a ripple that makes the fish change direction. Then, they use those tentacles to help them guess where the fish is going to move and grab it! The "bump" is so incredibly fast that you need high-speed film to see it.

- They're the only colubrids to spend the majority of their lives in the water! Unlike elapid sea snakes, which live in the ocean, tentacled snakes live in slow-moving, stagnant bodies of water, and during the dry season, they'll just hide in the mud until the rain returns.

Just incredible, unique animals.

Ani, the city of a thousand and one churches

I do too. But it lives its whole life. So you have to take it seriously eventually, right? And be respectful and shit.

Even in the house it was LOUD.  Probably the loudest thing I have ever experienced but at a normal, predictable interval.  You would begin to time your sentences with little pauses with the rest of the lighthouse crew so you would talk like this while making your………..HORN…………. tea and then carry on talking because you knew when it would go off.  It rattled the walls and the dishes in our cabinet.

At least one girl had died there. They kept photos of her everywhere “in honor of her sacrifice” because she had decided to take the winter watch alone and died in a storm where bounders the size of mini vans had been lifted out of the ocean and left scattered across the island, to say nothing of the ice chunks.  People weren’t allowed to be alone on the watch after that.

One day a dead moose washed up on shore and it took my entire crew all day but we managed to rig up a line to hang it up to dry because we thought having a moose skeleton in the house would really spice the living room up a bit.  It did.  Weird shit happens when six of you are left alone, like ALONE ALONE, no cell reception, no wifi, just a radio to contact the real world and not a lot of reason to do that.  People don’t go on lighthouse jobs if they want to stay connected, I’ve found.