People in general do not like snakes. This may be an evolutionary defense against an animal that might be dangerous, but some folks take that fear to irrational lengths. If you are looking for a vacation destination where you never have to be on the lookout for snakes, this guide has you covered. Ireland, of course, is famous for having no snakes, but it's not because St. Patrick drove them out. Ireland never had any snakes.
Ireland, unlike the rest, is fairly close to a mainland and even had a land bridge that appeared roughly 10,000 years ago and connected it to what’s now the United Kingdom. That land bridge disappeared only 1,500 years later, while the land bridge from the UK to Europe stuck around for another 2,000 years after that, and it’s that serpentine highway that seems to have given snakes enough time to penetrate jolly old England. The frigid Irish sea seems to have kept these scaly invaders at bay, since no one has ever found serpentine fossils in the country. Even northern Canada, where no snakes live now, has snake fossils from a warmer era—a trend that may repeat itself, as global temperatures rise, reopening vast tracts of land to snake habitation.
The implication is that you should plan to travel to one of these snake-free places before they become snake-ridden. Read the snake-free guide at Popular Science. -via Fark
