Florida Indigo snake and it's a protected snake. This is what most of the black snakes are. Very beneficial and harmless.

My husband, daughter and I were dining outside at Cane Garden last year. The mulch had just been renewed and looked quite nice. Suddenly I saw the biggest snake I have ever seen come out unto the dining area. I jumped and it jumped. I saw it (or another one) again and managed to persuade my family to leave.

I have been there many time since and have never seen another snake. I have decided to just be careful when new mulch is laid.

BTW, I have never seen one near my home. :bowdown:

Over the past 10 years I have seen four or five black snakes in my yard, two while playing golf at Tierra Del Sol, one reddish snake at El Santiago, one at Amberwood, three black snake skins and one rattlesnake skin from where they moulted. This is not counting the dead ones in the road.

The next door neighbor had one on her lanai.

This is why I tend to keep my garage door closed.

We have a 3 ft long black snake that we see around our house every few weeks or so. We don't bother it and it doesn't bother us.


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Thank You everyone for all your photos and stories!

This looks like the snake I had hiding in my garage!!!!!! About 5 - 6 feet long I'd say? Yes, I accidentally left our garage door open all night and proceeded to close the garage door. As I was retrieving something from the garage, something MOVED! I thought it was a mouse but it was a LONG snake. After I had a neighbor prod it from its hiding place, it slithered out the garage. It really didn't want to be bothered. Also, Community Watch gave me the name of a guy who removes snakes.

I would guess you had a Black Racer in your garage. Completley harmless to people. They do eat lots of rodents. Glad it was not injured.

A food source for snakes are the Gecko looking lizards. The food source for Geckos are spiders and insects.

I would rather have more geckos and less spiders than more snakes and less Geckos.

Me, No. My wife, yes, when she was on her very first outing playing golf with the girls in the neighborhood. It was on the second tee at Pelican. She said that she nearly stepped on it and one of the others shouted at her. She is extremely afraid of snakes

If your lanai is like all I've seen, there is a gap about 1/2 inch under the screen door. That's plenty of room for a snake to squeeze in through.