I just got caught in a downpour walking on the road toward south point and lying in the road, apparently taking a shower was a pretty big snake! Husband thinks it was close to 4 feet. Dog almost stepped on it. It seemed to like the rain.

I looked up some photos of the CC Boa on line but they look kind of white and spotted. This guy was much more brown and (I think) striped).

whatever it was I wish it good luck!

Boas are pretty common here. We rescued one well over seven feet from our dogs in the garden. When it is cool, it is more common to see them as they come out at the first sight of sun to warm up. They are slow when they are cold. Brilliant and very useful creatures.

It's very odd that it was in the middle of the road during a downpour then! But it did seem a bit frozen in place. As you know it rained all morning, then dried out then started pouring again. Maybe it came out on the road to sun itself and got caught in the rain and was stunned and slow?

WE HAVE A BIG bOA PROBLEM ON OUR PROPERTY. fIRST ONE WE SAW WAS ABOUT 5 YRS AGO, IT WAS ABOUT 5 FEET. tHEN IN MY EFFORTS TO FOSTER BIRDS ETC AND BUILDING A PEN FOR THEM, TIME AND TIME AGAIN WE FOUND THEM EATEN BY BOAS. WITH THE BOAS STILL IN THE CAGE. I JUST NOTICED MY CAPS ARE ON..SORRY....

Debbie! How frustrating! My dog is pretty small. I'm glad he didn't step on the snake. For some reason I got the impression that snakes were rare on Caye Caulker. Doesn't sound like they are rare at your house!

Debbie, That must be a nightmare for you. We have a good relocation site here on Ambergris Caye (near the dump as there is plenty of prey there). Perhaps you'd like to send him over.

Saw one about 4-6 feet long (hard to tell since he was all wrapped up in a fence) under our vacation rental house a few miles south of town two years ago. Left him alone and he had disappeared within a few hours.

Here's a pic of him:

https://picasaweb.google.com/111654074780529465188/BelizeWedding#5432908059330703314

Edit: Sorry! This was on AC, not CC.

perfect...

The boas eat mice as well as birds. kill them and the mouse population goes up dramatically.
Ever since the GBE land clearing I've been seeing lots of Brown Water Snakes also eats mice.
Lots of good snakes on the island almost never see a bad one.

this one bites but not poison lives in the coconut trees.
called a Rat Snake.

We get lots of Indigo Racers in our area. They give a nasty but non venomous bite too and boy can they make a stink when they let off their musk glands. Absolutely beautiful. We also get those turquoise/blue coloured vine snakes. They are all a very important part of our ecosystem.

I was gonna say: must have been damp lodgings if you were a few miles south of town

Actually the Boas have a right to be here, my fault in a way. but the little Dove I named Dweep, I had her for a few months, hand fed her, she would sit on my arm while I painted, I was introducing her to the wild doves and she was just taking off to fly with them, she would come back, I left her in a outside cage more and more often, and she met the boa. So now I have just changed my game plan. Boas can stay, and also I dont foster small puppies, or small anything that cant stay inside.