Puff Adder rescue

[phish]

I was driving home from Muldersdrift this afternoon at around 16h00 when i soptted this little guy crossing valley farm road just before Beyers Naude. This is quite a busy road so i was somewhat supprised. I pulled over and was walking towards him when another car came down the road straight for him. Amazingly the guy saw me waving and swerved to avoid him - allowing me to shoo him off the road and into some think bush.

Not that Mr Puffie seemed to appreciate it, he was like a mamba on tik and without tools was difficult to get closer than a meter or so, none the less i managed to snap this pic on my cell phone. Sorry for the poor pic, mobile phones arn't great ... but as you can see he is quite a pretty puffie for this area

[Fooble]

Mamba on tic!
Ha Ha, Nice one!

[Eyelash]

SHOOO...good work man...Hope he never tries that again..!

[Bob H]

Good job. I try and keep a snake stick in each vehicle for just those rare events.

[Bushviper]

He is rather skinny for this time of the year. I suppose he was looking for better hunting grounds.

[phish]

He is rather skinny for this time of the year. I suppose he was looking for better hunting grounds.

ja, slightly skinny, he was pretty small though ... maybe 50cm. I was surpised he was inch worming accross the road so slowly because the tarmac must have been about 40 degrees. It certainly energised him though ...