So, gator poaching may now be replaced by snake hunting? This could get interesting. Too bad so few of the old timers are still around, they could show the Park biologists a thing or two about tracking and hunting in the Glades. While I was crossing the Slough I had no fear of a gator attack, but the one thing that did concern me was a big python slipping over the side into my skiff while I was sleeping, so I slept with my camping machete unsheathed and the blade wedged up behind one of the inwales for those two nights.