Island Wilderness

The green snake slithered down the branch of the palm tree as I stared at him from my balcony overlooking the Andaman Sea. Snakes interest me, and I've never had the chance to see a snake move so gracefully across the surface of a tree trunk; the only snake meetings I've had are with garden snakes that dance across your toes in long grass, drugged pythons that reptile shows like to place around your neck and snakes of all sizes in zoos, where they barely move an inch and stay wrapped in a coil the entire time.
The movements of the snake were fascinating - every once in a while he would lift his head from the trunk and swing it in the air, deciding on which way to go and whether or not there was food nearby. As he crept the length of the tree it appeared that he wasn't moving apart from the stripes on his skin flowing gently and his body stretching into loops and curves. I've never seen an animal move so calmly in such a graceful manner. Jeanne and Lynne thought it was gross and a woman walking beneath it shuddered away but I thought it was amusing. You don't see snakes on trees everyday in Canada.

"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get" - Forrest Gump.