It took over 2 years, but I finally saw my first Costa Rican snake yesterday. This comes a week after my friend, Colin, lost his dog to a snake bite. Isaac and I had just driven home and all the (five) dogs came out to the gate to meet us. But stretched out all across the entire gate was this green, almost transparent snake. It was doing the crazy snake thing with his tongue. I was so afraid the dogs were going to get bitten! But all ended well. The snake jumped at me and I ran away like a little girl. Then Isaac tried to run it over with the truck! But the little bugger got away. We’re told it was a "lapas" snake, but I couldn’t find any info about it anywhere.

We do have lots of snakes in Costa Rica. But I guess I’ve just been lucky that I hadn’t seen any before this one. A couple of years ago on the property that we own, one of our workers, Jose, had a run in with coral snake (extremely dangerous). I’m hoping I don’t meet her!