BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - SNAKES! Those slithering creatures that fascinate some and scare others seem to be the new trend as they are popping up everywhere and on a regular basis.
Just yesterday (Aug. 20) a teenager came across three snakes in the front area of his residence.
SKNVibes spoke with 15-year-old Shalon Somersall and his mother Colleen Griffin, both of Burton Street Basseterre, who gave details of yesterday afternoon's finding.
Somersall said that he was cleaning the front portion of their yard around 2:15 p.m. yesterday when he saw something strange wiggling around in some trash.
"When I saw it, I jumped back and first I thought it was an earth worm but when I looked at it I saw it was a small snake. Right then I saw two bigger ones come from out of the rubbish that was there."
Somersall said that the two bigger snakes slithered away but he noticed that the baby snake was moving in his direction.
"I saw it coming it my direction and I wondered what would happen if I tried to catch it. I took a jar and a toy shovel that were there and caught it," he said.
Griffen told this media house that she received a phone call from her son informing of the snake.
The mother said when she arrived at her residence she took the baby snake back to her workplace at Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine and, after researching, found it to resemble that of a China Black Worm.
The "baby snake" is blackish-grey in colour and about three inches in length. The other two snakes were said to be about five inches long.
Griffen asked: "If that is just a baby snake, where is the mother?"
Recently, there have been snake sightings in many areas of the Federation - Halfway Tree, De Village, Frigate Bay and in Nevis.
It was just last week (Aug. 12) that another snake was found in the vicinity of the Public Works Department Mechanic Shop on Wellington Road.
The questions of "Where did they come from?", "How did they get here?", "Why are there so many being seen?" are still being asked and more frequently now that their presence is being felt.
