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[EmmasGrammy]

I had to look and now I am sorry!!!

I do not like anything creepy, crawly or slithery!!

These stories are freaking me out!! We had to deal with geckos, toads and frogs on our WDW trips, but if I see one snake I'm done!!!

 

[kbkids]

I'm with you!! Right after we finished building our house, we had a HORRIBLE problem with spiders. We have found house spiders the size of my palm on our front porch - totally freaked me out!! When I mentioned the amount of spiders to my next door neighbor, he grinned and said, "They're big, aren't they?" Turns out, they get in his attic, and they have to bomb their house every six months. We've never (knock on wood) had that problem, but the day one that size turns up in my house, I'm out of here!

Snakes, can't stand them. They're creepy! I was looking forward to Blizzard Beach and specifically, the Lazy River. Couldn't wait to lay back and relax. I'll still go, I'll even get in, but I don't believe I'll be doing too much relaxing now!

 

[MAC3]

Originally posted by kbkids
Lisa, see attached -

http://www.everythingabout.net/articles/biology/animals/arthropods/arachnids/spiders/wolf_spider/

Are you sorry you asked?

Please tell me these nasty things aren't common to the northeast! I'm a tent camper and if I ever saw one of these it may be my last time out!

That's just sick!

 

[littlebitofpixiedust]

the only snakes i would like to see are the ones behind glass at the animal kingdom!!!

 

[Belle's Castle]

Originally posted by SpaceMountain_uk
last yr me and all the people around the WL pool witnessed a snake eat a bunny rabbit!!!

Jeese! Snakes gotta eat too ya know!

 

[Chim Chiminy]

Snakes in Texas, bother me.
I am always scared when we go visit my parents.
I can remember as a teenager, driving home late at night and the rattlesnakes would be all over the road. We lived in the country, so not a lot of traffic on that road.

Snakes at WDW. Don't sweat it. We saw one on a walkway at the All Star Movies.

The best was seeing a CM fishing one out of the water on Splash Mountain. They had actually shut down the ride. That wasn't the reason for the shutdown though.
He was in the water looking for a woman's ring! She apparently dropped it into the water from the bridge. He was looking around and fished out a very long snake and laid it on the little patch of land there, then went on to find her ring.

 

[lenshanem]

Blizzard Beach in the lazy river. A man beside us grabbed it and threw it onto the side. I'm sure it just crawled right back on in though...

 

[jann1033]

we saw a beautiful bright blue snake in Fort W....unfortunately for it, it was under one of our tents and flatter than a pancake! I often wonder what kind it was though it was so pretty... spiders are my downfall, snakes I can handle ( and actually did once on the old Discovery Island!)

 

[aladdinsgirl]

Oh my gosh, it never occured to me that snakes might be in the lazy rivers at the water parks!! I HATE snakes, I don't care if they are tiny ones that won't hurt you. I will never go to Typhoon Lagoon or Blizzard Beach again!!

Krista

 

[goofy4tink]

And I ask again....what kind of snakes are we talking about? If I'm floating in a Lazy River I don't need to worry about a poisnonous snake biting my, ah, 'nether region'!!! Yes, I tend to treat them all as if they are dangerous, but that means I don't go around floating with me bum hanging down there I don't mind snakes. In fact, I actully like them. Find them quite interesting. Just don't want to be sharing a swimming hole with one with icky fangs!!!

 

[lenshanem]

I don't have a clue what kind of snake I saw in BB's lazy river last July. If I recall right it was black, thin and maybe a couple feet long? Maybe a tad shorter? It didn't make for a very relaxing ride the rest of the way back round........
From the sounds of this thread, this must be a common occurrence.

I guess they can't help it, though. Last summer in my neighborhood pool we had a snake. Our pool is next to a lake. I've seen turtles and such get in there, but that was the first time I saw a snake. Needless to say I check the pool good before I let my little girls jump in now!

 

[HusbandAlwaysWorking]

I saw a very small snake on a walkway at POR last year. It was about 1am, and I couldn't help screaming. Sorry if I woke any of you up! I hate snakes. Why did it have to be a snake?

 

[Schmeck]

The snake I saw in the water at BB has the same description as lenshanem's snake - thin, black, around two feet long (maybe smaller, but I wasn't going to stay around to measure it ,LOL!) The second snake, getting wrangled in the shubbery at BB, was also black and thin, but I didn't linger there either, so I don't have a clue how big it was!

 

[Mel6197]

It was in the Animal Kingdom in a bush We were in the smoking area by Africa..

My daughter noticed it, It was a small garder snake, So I took a photo. LOL

 

[phanomouse]

I am just going to give a list of all the animals that aren't considered cute and cuddly that I have seen and where:

-5 snakes between BB and TL (one trying to come up my leg while waiting in line for the ski lift. Luckily I am not afraid of snakes and so I just picked it up and I was led to a CM door where someone took it from me, pretty good size snake)
-lots of frogs all over but mostly at CS because they are released there.
-Lizards on the rocks around BTM, and most of the resorts
-Rats also at BTM and in the water swimming just after the plumit in SM
-Bats, and the only place we've seen bats are at night flying around the lamp posts at BC & YC

 

[wdhatter]

OK. I've been a WDW Cast Member for almost 12 years now. In those 12 years, I have seen a total of 3 snakes. That's not very many at all for having lived in FL for 12 years. The first was in a back stage area behind the Jungle Cruise. It was poisonous. The second was in a back stage area behind City Hall. It was a Black snake and not poisonous. The third was across from Flight of Wonder in the Animal Kingdom. Don't know what it was but most likely not poisonous.

I hate snakes as much as anyone. The only good snake is a dead snake to me, but I would not miss going to the water parks because of it. I've visited TL and BB MANY times and LOVE the lazy river. I have never seen one there. Don't let a "chance" keep you from doing something that you would love. Besides the lazy rivers are so crowded with people that it scares the snakes off.

Most of the snakes people see around here are either black snakes or garter snakes which are both non-poisonous. Black snakes do have a bad temper though. lol

So bottom line is...don't freak and enjoy your vacation. Snake sightings are fairly rare.

 

[moinab]

Wow, I can't believe a thread covering icky FL creatures hasn't had a single mention of a palmetto bug. I had a 3 inch one scamper out of my utensil drawer this morning. YUCK!!!!! DH got on the phone to the landlord immediately to get the exterminator out here.

 

[Smcgibeau]

I saw one at Blizzard Beach in 1998. I'll never forget it, ruined my whole day there. I live in NH and we don't have many that get big and black or have lots of colors. We have lots of tiny garter snakes. I loathe them, complete phobia about them!

I didn't see any in 2000 or 2002 but my husband saw one in the grass about 50 feet away from the walkway at the TTC. He turned my head so I wouldn't see it, which freaked me out more.

ITA about being on an upper floor so I don't feel like they can get in to my room.

 

[mom_rules]

Have never had the pleasure-what is a Palmetto Bug? (or don't I want to know). I hate snakes (see tag)-and bugs and reptiles and worms and................

 

[Cinderella37]

A Palmetto Bug is an enormous cockroach type bug. I think it may be a type of cockroach, actually. We had one on our balcony at the GF one year and saw one on the BoardWalk (on the actual BW, not near the hotel). Give me Palmetto Bugs over snakes anytime (even though they are repulsive and huge)!