TigrrrDad

Spend it all - you can’t take it with you.

Flau’jae taking over.

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One of my favorites for that reason.

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Here are the other colors we found…

I tried watching the season with Boston Rob but couldn't get into it. This year I watched because of Rob - he’s killing it. Now that I’m familiar with the format, I’ll give the previous seasons another try.

Fun fact: Rob used to live with my Florida influencer buddy that I catch snakes with (we just got back from a Costa Rica trip). Last summer we did West Texas and Rob was supposed to join us, but he got the call to film Traitors in Scotland and had to bail on us.

That was the Golden Eyelash Viper as I originally spotted it, aka “in situ”.

Okay, I’m exaggerating a bit.







We laid camp in the…uhh…more bougie part of the rainforest. :lol:

Anywhere there is rainforest there will be the type of snakes we found, and there eyelash vipers, snail-eaters, and tree snakes will almost always be in the trees. Look for a hotel that has trails on grounds in the rainforest areas. Aside from super colorful stuff like the golden eyelash, the snakes can be very hard to spot. Once dark hits do a lot of walking and shine the trees with a very good light (I use a Fenix HM71R and carry several spare batteries. The snakes especially like trees with bromeliads - the snakes and their food love to hide in the bromeliads. As long as temps are around 70+, you can road cruise snakes on any road through decent habitat as long as there isn’t much night traffic.





The bromeliads are the long leafed plants that grow on the trees - not a part of the tree but a separate plant that takes root on the tree. Those 2 shots show the golden eyelash viper and the Christmas phase eyelash viper as they were spotted.

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Did you purchase intl life flight coverage prior to this trip?

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No, but I brought band-aids.

We weren’t in range for Bushmasters, but if we go back we’re taking a shot at them.

Took a last minute trip to the rainforests of Costa Rica with my Florida influencer buddies - what an experience! We found some incredible snakes, but everything there from the plants to the birds on down to the insects is absolutely amazing. I’ll do a separate post for the non-serpentine critters.



Eyelash vipers - didn’t realize there were so many color variations. We caught 9 and they all looked different.









Fer de lance, aka Terciopelo - got this one at midnight of our last night. Responsible for 90% of venomous bites and the majority of snakebite deaths in Costa Rica. A bite from an adult can kill you in 5-6 hours without antivenin.







Costa Rican ground snake



Lichen snail-eating snake



Cloudy snail-eating snake



Ringed snail-eating snake



Ornate cat-eyed snake



Spotted coffee snake



Red coffee snake



Common blunt-headed tree snake





Banded blunt-headed tree snake



No pic of the Costa Rican coral snake - we road cruised it but lost it in the roadside grass. I also missed out on the 2 best snakes of the trip. I called it a night after the midnight Fer de lance on our final night, but the other two guys cruised til after 4 am and got these…

Mussurana



Annulated tree boa

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Corals are reclusive and solitary by nature. They're also not aggressive

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Also fact - one of the easiest venomous snakes to handle.