Reply #21: no, not the Outer Banks.

[merh]

I live on the MS Gulf Coast on a bay.

Plenty of the legless lizards around here. I'll never forget the time I had hired a kid to mow my yard. He came to do the job and I had to run a quick errand so I left for a few minutes. By the time I came back, his mother was here, walking beside him as he mowed with a gig in hand. There were several dead legless lizard bodies floating on the top of the bay.

The boy had come across a nest of the legless lizards and the thought they were snakes. He called his mother and she came and killed several and was protecting him as he mowed.

I had to explain to them what they were and that they were no dangerous. I still feel badly about the lizard carnage that happened that day.