Ouch, sometimes on has to eat one’s words. Did I say no more snakes around since I got the chickens?: just had an unpleasant encounter in the river, so not formally on my land strictly speaking- but still... I was inside minding my own business, when some awful screaming got my- and the dogs and the geese’s attention. Sounded like a cat in distress to me, all my pets including kittens accounted for, still the screaming goes on and is quite blood curling. At the edge of the river where the bank is extremely steep and overgrown, I find the spot where it is coming from and try to see what is going on. Can’t see nothing, the screaming goes on. So I jumped into the inner tube and approached the bank from the water side, more screaming. Carefully I; parted the grass, and promptly fell in., sunk into the mud. Lost my crocks- and floundered for some, hanging on to the reeds, when… aww! No! the back of the head of a snake, a big one., as big as my hand… grey green and the ridges, oh me, I flopped backwards, floundered somehow- fear makes strong I guess- back into the inner tube, and eventually onto dry land…the screaming got week then stopped. I try to tell myself that maybe it was just a rat or some such, but I don’t think so, what is was we, will never know, what I do know, and could do without is: it was a pit viper and an awfully big one too. Looked it up in the snake book hoping is was just some harmless serpent, but aww, no way, looked again a pit viper all right.
Those beasts are fatal, normally I am not very impressed with snakes, even poisonous ones, but vipers here are aggressive and deadly poisonous and no antidote until snookyville…give me a cobra anytime over these!!!
We have those, king and spitting, keel backs, golden tree snakes, coral snakes, those are the more poisonous ones, and further more plenty of non poisonous ones, amongst the pythons.Ouch, sometimes on has to eat one’s words. Did I say no more snakes around since I got the chickens?: just had an unpleasant encounter in the river, so not formally on my land strictly speaking- but still... I was inside minding my own business, when some awful screaming got my- and the dogs and the geese’s attention. Sounded like a cat in distress to me, all my pets including kittens accounted for, still the screaming goes on and is quite blood curling. At the edge of the river where the bank is extremely steep and overgrown, I find the spot where it is coming from and try to see what is going on. Can’t see nothing, the screaming goes on. So I jumped into the inner tube and approached the bank from the water side, more screaming. Carefully I; parted the grass, and promptly fell in., sunk into the mud. Lost my crocks- and floundered for some, hanging on to the reeds, when… aww! No! the back of the head of a snake, a big one., as big as my hand… grey green and the ridges, oh me, I flopped backwards, floundered somehow- fear makes strong I guess- back into the inner tube, and eventually onto dry land…the screaming got week then stopped. I try to tell myself that maybe it was just a rat or some such, but I don’t think so, what is was we, will never know, what I do know, and could do without is: it was a pit viper and an awfully big one too. Looked it up in the snake book hoping is was just some harmless serpent, but aww, no way, looked again a pit viper all right.

Those beasts are fatal, normally I am not very impressed with snakes, even poisonous ones, but vipers here are aggressive and deadly poisonous and no antidote until snookyville…give me a cobra anytime over these!!!
We have those, king and spitting, keel backs, golden tree snakes, coral snakes, those are the more poisonous ones, and further more plenty of non poisonous ones, amongst the pythons.Ouch, sometimes on has to eat one’s words. Did I say no more snakes around since I got the chickens?: just had an unpleasant encounter in the river, so not formally on my land strictly speaking- but still... I was inside minding my own business, when some awful screaming got my- and the dogs and the geese’s attention. Sounded like a cat in distress to me, all my pets including kittens accounted for, still the screaming goes on and is quite blood curling. At the edge of the river where the bank is extremely steep and overgrown, I find the spot where it is coming from and try to see what is going on. Can’t see nothing, the screaming goes on. So I jumped into the inner tube and approached the bank from the water side, more screaming. Carefully I; parted the grass, and promptly fell in., sunk into the mud. Lost my crocks- and floundered for some, hanging on to the reeds, when… aww! No! the back of the head of a snake, a big one., as big as my hand… grey green and the ridges, oh me, I flopped backwards, floundered somehow- fear makes strong I guess- back into the inner tube, and eventually onto dry land…the screaming got week then stopped. I try to tell myself that maybe it was just a rat or some such, but I don’t think so, what is was we, will never know, what I do know, and could do without is: it was a pit viper and an awfully big one too. Looked it up in the snake book hoping is was just some harmless serpent, but aww, no way, looked again a pit viper all right.

Those beasts are fatal, normally I am not very impressed with snakes, even poisonous ones, but vipers here are aggressive and deadly poisonous and no antidote until snookyville…give me a cobra anytime over these!!!
We have those, king and spitting, keel backs, golden tree snakes, coral snakes, those are the more poisonous ones, and further more plenty of non poisonous ones, amongst the pythons.