I got this e-mail from my cousin, Arnold.
"Hey, I've only seen this a handful of times, but there was a snake on my driveway."
I e-mailed him right back and told him, "You do realize your mom is raising earthworms, right? With her green thumb, I'm not surprised that she would get an earthworm that big."
I know what I'm talking about because it's quite well known that one of the nice things about Hawaii is that we don't have snakes!
Just then, my brother called and I smugly told him about Arnold's supposed snake.
"Ummm, actually..." my brother informed me. "We do have snakes in Hawaii, you know. They're blind snakes. I thought it was an earthworm when I found one too until I looked at it up close and saw the scales."
OK, we learn something new all the time. Here's the Wikipedia link to these Hawaiian Blind Snakes.
I did tell Arnold he was right and I haven't gotten an e-mail back yet saying, "I told you so." If he tells me he's seen a wallaby on the island, I'll know better than to doubt him.
You are still lucky that is all that you have in snakes. My number one memory of childhood is this..."Don't go there, it looks snaky". In Georgia, we have quite a few snakes!
ReplyDeleteI wonder what they eat, bugs I suppose, I love that comment by Kay G.
ReplyDeleteWe have leopards straying into our campus :-).... since we border one of the big national parks. Snakes is old stuff, and we used to have a resident cobra when we lived near the lake. No, I am not kidding. Ours is one of the more wooded areas in Mumbai, and although its a huge technological campus, we let some of the original inhabitants of the land still be there....
ReplyDeleteCobras???? Aaaack!
Deleteinteresting facts here Kay, good for us to learn something new!
ReplyDeleteI had always heard that Hawaii doesn't have snakes, too. I guess there are only blind ones! :-)
ReplyDeletefascinating...I didn't know that.
ReplyDeleteBelieving there are no snakes in Ireland I googled to be sure. There are no native snakes, but most pundits answering directed the questioner to the Irish equivalent of Wall Street in Dublin to find snakes. Now, considering your snakes are blind, perhaps they could be transported to Ireland to compound the fun.
ReplyDeleteYup. I believe St. Patrick was supposed to have banished snakes from Ireland.
DeleteWe had one of those snakes on our patio floor and called the Animal Quarantine (or some other state office...so long ago I can't remember which department). They came out immediately (within the hour) to check and laughed when they saw it. They said it was a snake but it wasn't the brown tree snake that we thought it was.
ReplyDeleteL. from W.
That's hilarious! You're smarter than me though. I thought it was a giant earthworm.
DeleteThat is pretty weird!! I am very surprised but I prefer these Hawaiian snakes.We have rattlers and other snakes here though I have not seen that many.
ReplyDeleteSo, not paradise after all?! :<)))
ReplyDeleteDidn't Eden actually have a snake and a certain apple tree (that might not actually have been an apple tree)?
DeleteNo snakes?!? I'm moving to Hawaii asap!
ReplyDeleteWell.... There is this non venomous blind snake that's about the size of a gigantic earthworm on steroids.
DeleteThat was top on my list of reasons to love Hawaii....NO SNAKES. bummer!
ReplyDeleteI did hear on the travel channel recently about a snake in Hawaii and they said if you ever see one kill it and then report where you saw it. we just can't let those varmits into your perfect state,.....ha
I hate all snakes, even blind ones! My sister hated living in Guam as a military doctor's wife for that very reason. They are the worst of God's creatures, though spiders might compete for the top spot.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely fascinating. I thought you didn't have any snakes either. Yes, LOL, the bike shorts should help with the mule. Keep us posted.
ReplyDeleteWallabies live in Kalihi Calley, Kay!
ReplyDeleteAloha from Honolulu,
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Really interesting! So is the snake in the photo an albino?
ReplyDeleteGosh... I have no idea, but then again it must have really tiny eyes to be able to see if they're pink. Wait a minute. They're blind snakes. I wonder if they do have eyes.
DeleteBee-uuuutiful rainbow at your back door. Oh gosh, how precious. And to know that the Hawaiians in the past had the same views.
ReplyDeleteOkay, the little itty bitty snake on steroids could still be used for fish bait. So Hawaii really does have snakes and kangaroos, eh? We should at least train the snakes to eat some bad bugs, skeeters and termites. The kangaroos could hassle the noisy roosters in Kauai. DrumMajor
That is a snake I could possibly live with.
ReplyDeleteIn India we do have a lot of snakes..but it is something which I could never be able to tolerate..I would love to be I Hawaii because of the reason that it has no snakes..
ReplyDeleteThe header photo is so beautiful..and you say that the rainbow comes up daily?? I envy you..really..