[Jack Moroney (RIP)]

CSM Ernie "Duke" Snider and I were on all paid vacation in West Africa under the "guidance" of the State Department when we got a day off. Duke noticed the barracuda in the center picture below and decided that we needed to go hook some using the Embassy Boat. We got one "cuda" and almost one uninvited follow on. If the boat driver could have flown would have left the boat as he yelled, "He bite you, you die"! What makes this interesting is that the green mamba, which this is, does not inhabit estuarys because they do not take to salt water. This critter was either under the tarp in the boat before we left and decided to unass the boat or it dropped out of a tree as we passed underneath. Either way it would not have been a good "catch of the day"!