Snake on a Boat

[darkin]

Here's a picture (I hope) I took of a northern water snake by a river near my house. See my earlier post.

[Stillraining]

Maybe Im not so tired of the rainy ol PNW after all...

[sailingdog]

Still-

We can ship you a few snakes to make up for your lack of them.

Originally Posted by Stillraining

Maybe Im not so tired of the rainy ol PNW after all...

[Allanbc]

Originally Posted by sailingdog

Still-

We can ship you a few snakes to make up for your lack of them.

I might have one or two around that I could send! The best part is that they are already boat-trained!

[gards1964]

Allan,
I was bringing my boat into the docks yesterday afternoon (sail and ski, used to be yacht harbor) and saw a snake in the water heading into the last slip on dock C. It was gone by the time i got tied up. From a distance it did look like northern water snake shown several posts up but I have no idea if they have a range here. I was hoping you'd cornered the market of Lake Travis boat snakes but unless you let it out for a stretch there may be more than 1.

[fullkeel7]

Now THIS is a snake! It tried to eat a 6 and 1/2 foot alligator and was almost successful....well 'til it POPPED! Both did not survive the encounter. And NO, the photo has not been retouched. Someone's Anaconda got loose in the Glades!



Bob

The snakes head is in the water (upper right of photo), it's body continues to the bottom of photo and curves to the left and up to the top center of photo where you can just make out the tail under the water. Where the bend of the snakes body is at lower center(ruptured), you can see one of the alligators back legs, under belly and it's tail pointing to the lower right side in the photo.

[SYMandalay]

My snake story can't top that photo, but here goes.

We were anchored out on Lake Texoma in N. Texas. I got up in the night to "check the anchor" and saw what I thought was a stray line wrapped around the backstay about 8 feet up. I could not think of where the line had come from even though it was windy so I grabbed a flashlight and looked to see that it was a snake.

I closed the hatches and companionway so it could not get below where the wife and dog were sleeping. Then I got the telescoping boat hook and extended it all the way and started beating on the snake from as far away as possible. After a few minutes, it slid down the backstay and into the water.

We had a reverse transom boat at the time with the backstay connection close to the water level and I had left the swim ladder down (which I never did again).

I don't know what kind of snake it was but we were far from shore. I dislike all kinds of snakes pretty much equally.

C

[sailingdog]

Just remember, most seasnakes are relatively poisonous...so don't get too close to them. Fresh water snakes are less dangerous, with the Water Moccassin and Cottonmouth being two of the more dangerous ones, at least here in the USA.

Sea snakes, or "seasnakes", are venomous elapid snakes that inhabit marine environments for most or all of their lives. Though they evolved from terrestrial ancestors, and some such as Laticauda sp. retain ancestral characteristics which allow limited movement on land, most are extensively adapted to a fully aquatic life and are unable to even move on land. They are found in warm coastal waters from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific. All have paddle-like tails and many have laterally compressed bodies that give them an eel-like appearance. However, unlike fish, they do not have gills and must come to the surface regularly to breathe. Nevertheless, they are among the most completely aquatic of all air-breathing vertebrates.^[1] Among this group are species with some of the most potent venoms of all snakes. Some have gentle dispositions and bite only when provoked, while others are much more aggressive. Currently, 17 genera are described as sea snakes, comprising 62 species.^[2][3]

[Allanbc]

Originally Posted by gards1964

Allan,
I was bringing my boat into the docks yesterday afternoon (sail and ski, used to be yacht harbor) and saw a snake in the water heading into the last slip on dock C. It was gone by the time i got tied up. From a distance it did look like northern water snake shown several posts up but I have no idea if they have a range here. I was hoping you'd cornered the market of Lake Travis boat snakes but unless you let it out for a stretch there may be more than 1.

Yikes, sounds like someone else has my problem now. My boat is at Sail and Ski but I am at the end of D dock!

[JewelledJester]

I'm tired of these mother effing snakes on my mother effing boat!!!!!!