Basically a "spitting" image (catch the punn)??.. of the picture below confronted me in my fishroom this afternoon...
I was cheerfully adjusting waterflows from the pumps and doing my daily "fishroom" chores, when I looked down and saw this facing me... Now I've never really been afraid of snakes, but I do hate it to be caught by surprize.... At the time I noticed him, he was already upright and ready to strike... (fortunately), I had my glasses on and he actually spat venom onto both lenses of my spectacles....
It all happened so fast, I did not have the time to fetch my camera to take a decent photo of the "blighter"... (bypassing the swearword filter with that one)... but grabbed a broom and pinned him to the ground just behind the neck.
He was put in a plastic drum with a very tight fitting lid and with my wife in the back seat of my car holding the lid down, I drove him off to distant pastures where he was released in the bush.....
The joys of staying adjacent to a game reserve!!!!
I was cheerfully adjusting waterflows from the pumps and doing my daily "fishroom" chores, when I looked down and saw this facing me... Now I've never really been afraid of snakes, but I do hate it to be caught by surprize.... At the time I noticed him, he was already upright and ready to strike... (fortunately), I had my glasses on and he actually spat venom onto both lenses of my spectacles....
It all happened so fast, I did not have the time to fetch my camera to take a decent photo of the "blighter"... (bypassing the swearword filter with that one)... but grabbed a broom and pinned him to the ground just behind the neck.
He was put in a plastic drum with a very tight fitting lid and with my wife in the back seat of my car holding the lid down, I drove him off to distant pastures where he was released in the bush.....
The joys of staying adjacent to a game reserve!!!!
happy your ok mate
must have been a bit of a shock! i love snakes, but that's a bit too close for comfort.
