Boa constrictor Bailey, reported missing at Tofino beach, turns up in owner’s kayak
It is not clear how someone could miss a six-foot-long snake inside a kayak.
A six-foot-long boa constrictor [was] on the loose after slithering away at Tofino’s Chesterman Beach on Vancouver Island’s West Coast.
James Rodgers, co-founder of the Coastal Animal Rescue and Education Network in Tofino, said the young man who owns the snake reported it missing Monday after it disappeared Sunday afternoon...
Rodgers said ...his organization... had never dealt with a missing snake since it was formed 14 years ago...
In some places, this might barely raise an eyebrow, but Tofino isn't one of those places. I've been there. Stunningly beautiful. (If you "want to get away from it all", google "hiking the West Coast Trail")