OUTDOOR STORY -- GINGER TURNER PADDLE EXCURSION: on 
Passport to Texas Outdoor Stories.

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Ginger Turner does canoe racing, so she spends a lot of 
time on the water where she lives. Paddling on Lady Bird 
Johnson Lake in Austin, TX, she says that, over the years, 
she's been witness to many a curious incident. 

The one that was really funny and sticks out in my head. My 
friend and I were paddling and we saw something swimming 
and we couldn't figure out what it was. We get over there and 
it's a squirrel swimming over one of the widest parts of the 
lake. We're like, "let's get closer, get closer." So we follow him 
over and he ran up this tree that was leaning over in the water, 
and as he was running up he ran smack dab into a snake that 
was curled up sunning on the tree. And it startled the squirrel, 
and it startled the snake and they both jumped about 10 ft. up 
in the air! And the snake plopped in the water and the squirrel 
we couldn't even find. Later we heard a rustling and we saw the 
squirrel had made it over to the shore. But it was hilarious, it 
was funny. But I didn't know that squirrels swam, but I guess 
they do. [laughs] :45

Thanks, Ginger. It can be pretty amazing, and funny, what 
you can see in the wild sometimes. 

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