Its Snake Season

Well, not really, but it did seem like Snake Day in our house today.  Joe was invited to speak about snake bites at the Health Center in Macas today.  Macas is a fairly large town about 3 hours further east,  which generally means closer to the jungle.  About 15 minutes after he left, the guys who were weeding the ditches in front of our neighbors house found this boa.  As usual, Sebastiao identified it within seconds, and as usual was correct- a Brazilian Rainbow Boa.  By the time I caught up, the snake was not very happy to say the least, but Marco (the brave guy who didn't have a heart attack when he found it) was kind enough to get the snake out and let me take a few pictures.

Ok, so this is the snake in its bucket-  all I could see was the head and the fact that Marco kept saying it was  in the position to strike.....

Then I couldn't see the head, which made me more nervous.... Marco was off trying to find a stick, but he didn't put the big ol' piece of wood back on the bucket......

So, then he dumped the snake out and it fortunately tried to get away.

  

But Marco pulled it back out and then it really got mad!  Yes, that is it's head in the bottom of the picture moving toward me.  I'm not sure if the blurriness is from how fast the snake was moving or how fast I was moving...

At this point, I had seen enough and was ready for Marco to put the snake away, but alas there was more.

It was about 5 feet long and a beautiful orangey color.

Then one of the maintenance guys made a suggestion that we should put it on our shoulders for a picture-  Marco was the only one to go for that.

The snake is back in the bucket, but now he has to figure out how to let go of its head without getting bitten....