Just 10 minutes ago, I just wanted to close the entrance door to get ready for the night, when suddenly …
Not even 10 centimeters from my nekkid feet, this monstrous 30 cm long snek sidewinded away and hid under the rattan chair.
SHOCK! ๐ฎ
My poor little heart is still bumpin’ like krayzee, I hope you can understand that. When I turned around to switch the lights on, snek pulled a vanishing number on me. ๐ Oy vey. I know she’s somewhere in our garden, hopefully not inside the house … me still being barefoot n all. ๐ฎ
Lucy, you’re a biology professor or sumfink, right? What kind of snek is this, dangerous or harmless, aggro or chill? I know she must be very young and most probably hungry. And although a generous, sharing person I feel I’m still much too young to end up as reptilian kibbles.
What a horror. ๐ฆ
Thar She Blows! 
Hard to tell by the photo but looks like a baby black mamba so there might be 10-20 more around plus the one that laid the eggs.
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Yes, I’ve heard about black mamba encounters but always thought this shit only happens in the papers. And now right in our garden! YIKES! ๐ฎ
Mambas are choking sneks, right? They kill by strangling us to death, right? In so far there is not much to fear from this one and her bros and sis. But the mama snek – now that is alarming. ๐ฎ
Will alarm the complex manager and snek catcher now. Too bad I dunno where she is. ๐ฆ
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It was much darker than it looks in the photo. Exposure time was about 2 secs. The flash don’t work anymore, outside lamp wasn’t on due to loadshedding. And I was rightfully jittery as well. So I was lucky the snek was patient enuff to hold still during that time.
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