A hiker recently spotted a massive snake in Florence’s Jeffries Creek Park.

If Indiana Jones had seen this, he would have turned around immediately.

In a Facebook post shared with the South Carolina Hiking Club, Meredith Langley exclaimed over the snake-like item she had just spotted.

Langley couldn’t help but notice how well the snake blended in with its surroundings.

“This was an excellent teaching moment and example for my own kids who forget not to run ahead of me on trails!” Langley noted in her post.

Greg Lucas, a biologist with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, identified a non-lethal brown water snake (Nerodia genus).

The water snakes Lucas described appear larger than they are due to their thick, muscular bodies. Water snakes reach full size between 30 and 60 inches, according to him.

Langley said that she and her children encounter copperhead snakes on their weekly excursions in the neighborhood. She also mentioned that water snakes and water moccasins are widespread in the area.

According to her calculations, the snake Langley witnessed was at least four feet long when fully extended. The beast was “very unafraid of us,” she went on.

“It looked at me with serenity and restraint, without hostility or fear. That told me that this species was confident in its ability to defend itself if necessary, but it did not need to expend that energy unnecessarily,” Langley explained.

She thanked him for the opportunity to witness the creature and then went away.

“That environment is its home, not ours, and my children and I appreciate and venerate it whenever we are out in nature,” Langley added.