Who would have guessed some free bread would entertain us for hours? It did, and that’s no exaggeration.
We made friends with these fishies, to the point that we could just splash our hands in the water and they would come over. But it was awesome with the bread, because we even managed to get some of the larger ones won over as well.
Raju and I spent the better part of a day sitting on the beach and feeding the fish. He got brave and stuck a piece of bread between his toes. As the fish dove for the bread, they tickled his legs (freak!).
As we got up to head back to the room, we walked over the bridge next to where we had been. I looked down and saw a snake that looked something like this:
Holy crap! I watched it swirl it’s way through the water… I was a bit mortified.
“Look,” I said, pointing. “That’s a sea snake — and it’s somewhat pretty. That means it’s probably really, really poisonous, right?”
“Yep.”
Just a few minutes ago my feet were in there! I’m not sure if the snake pictured above is the exact type of snake or not. It was black and white striped. Raju said it also had a little dot in each white stripe, which I don’t remember. However, a quick google search and I found this snake, who is indigenous to the South Pacific. Apparently their venom can kill a person within 5 minutes, but they aren’t inclined to attack or come around when people are splashing in the water.
We took the rest of our bread back to our room, and fed the fish from the coffee table. Truly amazing how quickly they make it over when they hear/smell food plopping in the water (can fish smell?).
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What the freak is that?
The image of the snake is a Laticauda colubrina — which is not what I saw, I don’t believe. The site I found it on said there coloration was similar to many other sea snakes in the Australia/SE Asia region.
This weekend I watched a special on either the Travel Channel or Animal Planet about the Katuali sea snake, which is found in the Polynesia area. It is similarly colored (black and white striped), but still not exactly what we saw.