The president need not be a trained herpetologist.

[tavernier]

41. When we were going to Costa Rica to zipline,

they told us about a yellow snake, called an eyelash snake that was the most venomous in the country. Lo and behold, walking in the queue to the area where we were being seated and strapped in to zoom through the forest, there was the eyelash snake very calmly wrapped around a part of the fence post. It was tiny, but absolutely gorgeous in color and not the least frightening. Yes, I think snakes are beautiful and I don’t have fear of them because for the most part staying within a distance and not intimidating them is the key. I did take a couple of pictures but sadly I don’t have the technology to post them here. But you can see them on Google, just put in yellow eyelash snake, Costa Rica. However, the bullet ants in South America scare the crap out of me and they were all over the trees where we were zip lining from post to post. They are about an inch long and can put you in the hospital with one single sting, and they’re not one bit pretty.