I remember watching wrestling and Jake the Snake brought out a cobra and it bit the Macho Man on the arm.

 

I like Snakes......at 9 years old i caught and brought home my first Gopher snake,folks brought me down to the local pet store,we bought a terrarium,and the snake got 1 white mouse a week.
that snake was as long as i was tall at that time,but really docile,it never once bit me....it did however escape from its cage several times in the house.....
I fondly remember the elementary school principal coming into the classroom,and informing me i could go home an hour early to capture the snake which was loose in the dining room,after my mom called the school..
At 48 years of age,i will still sometimes capture a snake if i see one,and am certain that its a non-poisonous species.

 

here is what was swiming in Alamo Lake the LAST time I went fishing with out my .45

 

My wife is deathly afraid of snakes, she sees one, and all you see is the dust behind her... she has run THROUGH unopened screen doors away from one. It is a pure phobia, no control at all. She ran one over and I had to check the car to be sure it hadn't gotten into the chassis my some extreme feat of skill to follow her home, that's how unreasonable her fear is.

Myself, I'm not afraid of them, but they can startle me. One year seemed to be particularly well for them around here, and I saw 10 times more than usual. I was walking into the shop one time, and a wire had gotten kinda caught around my ankle, so i tried to shake it off, didn't seem to want to come off, look down, here is a big ol' bull snake right under my foot at the same time... We could run them over with the tractor, and it didn't seem to phase them, they just kept going. Mostly just bull and garter snakes, but there have been two times I have seen timber rattlers. Once, the dogs were harassing something for a long time, went to see what it was, and they had a timber rattler coiled up against the house foundation. I just chased the dogs away to let it go about it's way, and never have seen it again. The other time, I knew I had a snake in the garage, didn't much worry about it since it wasn't hurting anything, actually had fewer sparrows trying to live in there after that, as it liked the rafters. I went to put up one of the big doors and heard this funny buzzing. I look over my shoulder at one of the assist springs, and here he was, draped across the spring above me... I decided to not put the door up at that time... A week later, I found it dead, the German Shepard I had at the time had killed it. I still see snakes around, or their skins they shed, but I don't get too worried about them, I just don't let my wife know that I have seen them so much. Had a little one go darting away when I opened the trunk on a parts car a little while back, startled me about as much as it startled the snake... it was gone before I could think about doing anything, not that I was going to.

 

Well six total in one week. More than the entire 62 years the motel has been here. Great just great.
Ya know if people want to pick em up, keep em etc that is just fine and dandy. You are more than welcome to do so. Just leave me out of it.
The weird thing is I didnt mind them growing up as my sisters and her hubby were snake people and Al Robbins "herpetoligist extraordinare" was our family friend. Somewhere the fear really set in.

We took the horses up into youngs creek and were riding along and the horses were just meandering and what we thought was a small fallen tree across the trail turned out to be a snake. The horses just walked over it. It just moved ever so slowly. but the guys estimated 7 plus feet because the trail is 6' and it was over lapping both sides. I had a pure anxiety attack. It was scary.

 

I think I might have gotten a bit excited if I saw that...My wife would just have a heart attack right there... she can't even stand them on tv, it's that deep rooted.

 

Snakes do not bother me in the least, I dont want the poisonous variety hanging around on the property, but the non-poisonous ones are great mice killers (better than cats) And the small garter snakes keep the bugs out of the garden...........Spiders.....Thats another story......All you need to remember is, RAID KILLS BUGS DEAD!

 

I was scuba diving in Mexico last summer, saw some snakes sitting on the ocean floor at about 15 feet, it was pretty neat thing to see.

 

I spent a year as a Volunteer at the San Francisco Zoo around 30 years back,and at one time i had several photos of me with fairly large snakes.....one was me carrying a 16 ft long Reticulated Python,draped over my shoulders and wrapped around my waist.

 

Sounds like you saw some eels.

 

eels sound more likely,i seem to recall hearing that Sea Snakes were strictly in the Southern Hemisphere.......Any Herpetologists in the house?

 

Eels will have elongated belly and dorsal fins........They also have a pretty decent girth versus length......

Oh....And where in Mexico? Gulf? Or the Pacific? (or Baja?).

 

Pacific and they were certainly not eels, I was in Puerto Vallarta and we went out to some island to do the scuba.

 

A few years back, my roommate and I had a 7 foot red tail boa in a cage on one wall. A 3 foot red tail boa who escaped constantly on the other wall. Two, nine inch long alligators, a alligator snapping turtle, an alligator gar and 2 crawfish in a 200 gallon tank behind the couch on the middle wall.
Most of our neighbors were various type of LEO's and could not believe that we never locked the door. I told them that most people would freak out as soon as they stepped in the front door and would not want to go any further.
I never got robbed until after all the critters were gone.

 

It's really difficult to tell from the photo's but it looks Mooses first snake was a baby garter snake. And if you had six of them in a week I would guess that one just had babies. They are harmless.

The dead snake in your second post sorta looks like a Milksnake. Gorgeous.... and also harmless.

The closest that I've come to being bitten by a Rattler was when a Diamondback tagged my pant leg. I'm still thanking God that I wasn't 1/4 inch closer to it. I've owned many snakes in my life, and yet I still get startled when I see a wild one till I know what kind it is. I think that that's just a normal survival reaction though.