Sunday, October 14, 2007

Snakes

When we lived on Guam, there were not snakes that were of threat of fright. I was recently told that Guam was invaded by deadly snakes that chill out/ hang out in the trees. And I was also told 2nd hand that the snails no longer cover the road ways after a rain shower.
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JJones said...

I remember a bunch of us hiking along the base of the cliff in Pago Bay. We found this rat snake coiled up in a hole in the cliff wall. We had been poking at it for awhile with a stick and didn't realize how big it was, till that bastard came uncoiled and started friggin' chasing our stupid little asses. Turned out it was way longer than any of us were tall. Man did we run fast!

October 14, 2007 at 4:19 PM
Dave said...

Those snakes used to crawl all over my Dad's house on the ranch up in Adacao Barrigada. He would sit in the living room with his gun, and just blast them. Right through the windows, floors and ceiling, with bullet holes everywhere. One day he was sitting on the can, as a monster snake poked its head out from under the washing machine. When Dad got done with it, there was a big hole in the floor there also.

October 15, 2007 at 12:17 AM
juliet said...

Behind the Shook's house was a big Kalamancie tree( lime/orange). Alice and I used to collect the fruit to make lemonade and there were always small snakes in that tree. We would catch and play with them. Guam needs a snake virus!The snakes came from Malaysia on US military equipment during W.W.II and have no natural enemy on Guam.I have seen some huge ones around trash cans.(I think in Malaysia they are called cat snakes. Yep, I love Animal Planet

October 15, 2007 at 12:41 AM
DRL said...

I remember climbing trees only to find them all around me. It didn't take many times before I inspected a prospective climb before hand. Remember any time there was a power outage,it was always blamed on a rat snake crossing two lines.

October 16, 2007 at 4:42 AM
rac said...

Believe it or not, in all the years on Guam I never saw a single snake. Except if you count the giant one in the coconut grove. I saw it one evening after smoking some cat tail. It was about a hundred yards long and slithered around a wooden stake driven thru its heart.

October 16, 2007 at 4:52 AM

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