Along Betsy's bike route to work early (around 6:30am) in the mornings she often sees hundreds of these huge snails on the sidewalks along a road that runs along the edge of Kadena Air Base. They look more like ocean conch shells than land snails. I snapped a few photos of them (2 are dead & 2 are alive) when I was biking along the route later in the day. Here is the first & closest of 3 shots I captured (check out the 2 following it in the album for size perspective):
In doing a little research, we think this is the species we're seeing: Achatina Fulica (click to check out details on Wikipedia.com)
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2 comments:
Men! My favorite snails!
I used to put some salt into their shells to melt them!! Aha,I was an evil kid.
Now I miss them!
They're all over Kadena - I saw them for the first time when I was taking my daughter to her first day of school - they're all over the place on the sidewalks there.
Anyone got some garlic butter and a sautee pan? ;)
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