Crawl Cay is an Island off the East Coast of Belize. It lies just North East of Belize City in the Caribbean and is part of the Turneff Island Archipeligo. The boas from this island are very unique and rare. A very small number of them were collected by the Late Bob Sears back in the Eighties. Luckily a man named Tim Meade bred a few of these rare boas and produced the first Captive Born Crawl Cays back in the early nineties. There is some confusion & differences in in some Crawl Cay Boa populations because there are two or three other Islands in the Caribbean that are named " Crawl Cay ". Secondly some unscrupulous dealers simply tagged boas with the name "Crawl Cay" to gain profit for their Mainland Belize Boas. But I am fortunate enough to own a few of the Bob Sears / Tim Meade true Crawl Cays. My Boas are the real deal with provenance and paper trail back to the original wild caught Crawl Cay Boas. Crawl Cay Boas are true dwarves that max out at about 5 feet. They breed at around 4 feet and can be sustained on a diet of a just a dozen or so meals per year. On their native Crawl Cay they eat Birds as their main diet and youngsters eat geckos. Some Captive born Crawls may have difficulty getting started on mice - but most readily accept rodents as their first meal. They have a very gray background color with alot of black speckling. The head markings are very speckled too and the tails have just a few small saddles. In my opinion these boas should be classified as a valid subspecies of Boa constrictor - but not enough animals are available to do such work & collecting on Crawl Cay is not possible as The Turneffe Archipeligo is a National Reserve & collecting is prohibited. So therefore, the fate of the Crawl Cay Boas population in Captivity is in the hands of responsible Locality Breeders.

Update 08: I was fortunate enough to obtain a new blood line male born from a wild caught female that was captured on Crawl Cay by a Grad Student in 2001. This male represents an entirely new bloodline for this rare race of boas.

Update June 2009: Luckily my new Bloodline  male bred a Sears line female & I had a beautiful litter of Crawl Cays in Mid September.  

Image of yearling Crawl Cay

Image of 2 year Crawl Cay

Image of Crawl Cay Adult male

Image of Tim Mead C.B. Crawl Cay

Image Crawl Cay litter 09

Image of Sears line Crawl Cay

Aerial View Of Crawl Cay

Yearling Crawl Cay From my 09 litter