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Blue Crab · 14-04-2023, 14:06

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Originally Posted by skipperpete

In Langkawi a large python entered a boat and grabbed the ships cat but was beaten back outside by the owner, it was a very big python!!

Man, I just didn't want to read that.

jcapo · 14-04-2023, 15:31

We anchored the dinghy in knee deep water in the Exumas Pipe Creek area near an iron shore rocky area and went conch hunting. Returned to the dinghy to find a Brown Racer sunning itself on the seat. I coaxed it into the water with an oar and off it went to the rocky area where there was a hawk or Osprey perched on the highest rock. The snake probably became lunch.

There are small Timber Rattlers on Andros and probably other kinds of snakes too.

CaptainRivet · 14-04-2023, 16:31

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Originally Posted by JPA Cate

G'day, guys. Just read this and had to ask myself, what if this happened on our boat? Most snakes are good swimmers and anchor chain is like an escalator for them.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-...seat/102199822

I would need to change my panties....poor pilot...
That cape cobras are very dangerous and the venom is deadly, stay away as far as i can. If i have one on boat i go in rhw dingy and call 911 or similar...

davenrino · 14-04-2023, 16:59

My friend spent all last year cruising Indonesia with his family on their Catana 47. They found sea snakes onboard several times. They are very venemous but not aggressive. I wish I could have found the picture of his 17 year old daughter holding one this size before she released it overboard.

MVDarlin · 16-04-2023, 10:45

I woke at 04:00 to use the head while moored at the dock in Paradise Village, Puerto Vallarta. When I turned to wash my hands I was confronted by a 5ft iguana with 4" claws perched on the sink. It had crawled in the port light. I screamed like a little girl. I closed the door and decided I could deal with it in the morning.

RogerLloyd · 17-04-2023, 15:33

I am a reluctant sea swimmer. After a quick dip from the bathing platform, I was drying off when this chap appeared very interested in climbing aboard. We discouraged him. He circled the boat with his head just above the water level and then swam off to Tomahawk Island in the Bass Strait. A friend later told me it was a tiger snake, and highly poisonous. I am an even more reluctant sea swimmer now.