Has anyone seen a snake in the Parks/Water Parks

[Katies Dad]

Hi, my DW has a terrible snake phobia, has anyone seen a snake in any of the Disney Parks or Water Parks? Just curious and I need to be prepared!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks

 

[gshoemate]

We have lived here since september and have not seen any snakes. However, we do have these cute little lizards that hang out just about everywhere. They tend to scurry away if you even attempt to go near them.

 

[laceemouse]

No snakes, but my husband saw a gator in a pond between the Poly and SOG on time!!

 

[AKASnowWhite]

Nope. Never saw a snake either....not even when we've stayed at Fort Wilderness Campground.....we saw some beautiful, wild peacocks there though...

 

[QuickGold]

I saw a snake once on the walkway from MGM to Yacht Club Resort...I assume it was "sunning" itself on the pavement, because it squirmed away as soon as we spotted it. The snake was nothing to write home about....your average grass snake.

 

[Disneynut11676]

My DH and I saw a snake (I don't think it was very big) while we were in Typhoon Lagoon in early May last year. The Disney people were already on it, taking care of getting it into a net and away from the public. That's the only place that we have ever seen one.

 

[Chim Chiminy]

We saw a snake last year, in April. A cast member used a hook thing and fished it out of the water on Splash Mountain, after the big plunge as you are going around the bend. But that wasn't even the real reason he was in the water. A woman standing on the bridge had evidently lost her ring. They had stopped the ride and he was looking for it when he found the snake. He hooked it up out of the water, it wasn't very big, and laid it in the grass, then he found the woman's ring and the whole area broke out in applause.

 

[MOQ3424]

We saw a snake in either Typhoon lagoon or Blizzard beach, I can't remember! It wasn't small! But it wasn't big either.

 

[kilee]

There was a thread going about 2 months ago about a snake someone had seen in Epcot. Then people posted other places they had spotted them. I would try searching for that it got to be alittle funny after awhile. I too have a severe snake phobia. To the point I began to hypervenilate when I seen a tank of them in a pet shop. 2 summers ago I also saw one sunning itself on our front steps (it was a house we rented). Needless to say, I didn't use the front door or steps for the remaining 4 months we lived there. Not once! However, I personally haven't seen a snake while a Disney, kind of glad to because it would ruin my magic.

As for the little lizards. Still not a huge fan, but I can deal with them. I haven't really seen these at the parks. But whenever we stay off site, we see them everywhere else. Especially around shrubs and such. They are pretty harmless and don't seem to freak me out in the same way.

 

[jimmybop]

While working at BB, from march till the end of May of last year, I only saw two snakes. One was on a pathway, and one was in the cross country creek... noting evern happened, and no one ever got bit. you all will be fine though they dont come around too often. I saw more Ducks and Lizzards in the parks.

 

[natt]

Eewww! Never really was concerned about seeing snakes at WDW! Now about those lizards (aren't they salamanders?) When we stayed at the GF in '93, we had a first floor room and one got into our room from our patio door! DH got it out, but until he did, I was freaking that we'd be stuck with this thing in our room hiding somewhere!

 

[NotUrsula]

The little green lizards are not salamanders. They are green anoles. (Brown anoles, which are not native to Florida, are gaining fast in population. Those look a little bit stripey, and they don't change color when the get onto green bushes.) They won't hurt you, though they may startle you a bit. The males have a red "bubble" throat that they display during mating periods; that can look a bit grotesque.

Anoles can drop their tails as a defense measure. If you try to snatch one by the tail, it will leave the tail behind and keep running, so if you get one in your room, don't try to dispose of it the way you would a mouse; you'll end up keeping the business end.

 

[VelvetGloves]

About 3 years ago, I saw a black snake near one of the quiet pools at Port Orleans Riverside. It was an average size, and it slinked off after I startled it. I think it was just sunning itself.

VelvetGloves

 

[olena]

I've seen a snake at Blizzard Beach. He was black....2.5 feet long. He was in the greenery.

My father has lived in orlando since January and he's killed one and seen others.

 

[natt]

NotUrsula; Thanks for that Science lesson (I'm serious!) I would definately want to know how NOT to pick one up if it got into my room!

 

[Gaspode]

Hiya,
(My first post here btw!)
I just thought I'd say two things to 'Katies Dad' who started this thread:

1) I only ever saw *one* snake when I lived in FL for six months and that was outside my apartment in a bush and it was small and black and slithered off pretty quickly! I never met anyone else who had seen any... I really doubt you will encounter any so I wouldn't worry....

However, and I don't want to spoil anything *BUT*

2) If you've never been on Honey I Shrunk the Audience please do not take the person with the phobia on it... *PLEASE*.

Sorry... I don't want to alarm but that attraction is not suitable for anyone with a phobia of snakes (or rodents for that matter)

Hope this helps, and enjoy your trip!
Cya,
Gaspode

 

[Katies Dad]

Thank you all for all the info. I think its TL and BB that is worring her the most. She can`t even look at a picture of a snake in a book, if she floated past one in the lazy river or saw one in the shrubbey she would just die. I`ve had to live with this phobia for the past 17 years, and it seems to get worse. It wouldn`t make any difference if it was 9 inches long or 2 foot 6...........

 

[Gaspode]

Originally posted by Katies Dad
Thank you all for all the info. I think its TL and BB that is worring her the most. She can`t even look at a picture of a snake in a book, if she floated past one in the lazy river or saw one in the shrubbey she would just die. I`ve had to live with this phobia for the past 17 years, and it seems to get worse. It wouldn`t make any difference if it was 9 inches long or 2 foot 6...........

Trust me - I totally understand. I suffer from 'Selachophobia' aka fear of sharks to the point where a picture in a book/on tv or even on a cartoon if it appears suddenly on screen can severly upset me... and I've been known to have plenty of panic attacks!! So I definitely empathise.

I've never, ever, in 5 trips to FL seen a snake on disney property and certainly can't imagine one in the water parks... tis too busy there most of the time, I reckon they stay *well* away so really I would tell her to go, have fun, relax and just don't think about it... she will be fine

As I say, just keep her out of Honey I Shrunk the Audience... the best way to live with a phobia I've found is to learn where you might see things that will upset you and avoid them (i.e. I memorise which adverts will show sharks on our tv and shut my eyes throughout them and I avoid that whole section of SeaWorld and I don't go in Living Seas....) so avoid the only place you are sure to see one, HISTA

Have a fantabulous time...
Cya,
Gaspode

 

[dgaston]

I too saw a very small black snake at TL in some bushes. The CM's were busy removing it.

 

[grinningghost]

Oh yes I have! Walking along the path at Blizzard Beach, I went to stick my foot in one of those little sidewalk sprinklers, and yikes! I almost stepped on a long, black snake. He then took a dive into the Cross Country Creek. I stayed out of the creek the rest of that day.