Puff Adder at My House in Stellenbosch, South Africa - photo by ericpalmer

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Album: Landscapes--Other
Category: Dumb Internet Pics
Date Posted: May 3, 2011 at 13:26
May 3, 2011
Location: Stellenbosch, South Africa
Trail: My House
Riders: Puff Adder

Photo details

Photo Size:

Camera

Nikon D70

Lens

105.0 mm f/2.8

Shutter Speed

1/250

Aperture

25.0

Focal Length

105.0 mm

ISO Speed

200

Date

2011:05:02

Time

14:04:24

19 Comments

Rawkus777 (May 3, 2011 at 13:59)

Ha sounds like you had lots of the same snakes I did. I had both southern brown and Rhombic egg eaters, Aurora's, olives and a few skaap stekers ha. My fav exotics were my royal python and my yellow anaconda which NEVER tamed down, got nailed every time. Hope you had a blerrie grab stick!

ericpalmer (May 3, 2011 at 14:06)

I've never seen a brown egg eater in person, but the rhombic guys are sexy as hell! Had a skaapsteker for a lil bit too... never had a royal, but they are one of my favs & screw anacondas, I didn't handle her much because of it. Haha grab sticks are for girls, cooler box & broom, ghetto style baby! haha

Rawkus777 (May 3, 2011 at 14:14)

Haha I guess a broom and cooler box would be ok for one of these. Would like to see you take a mamba home using that method

Saw one badass mamba up in Hluhluwe and not a single cell in my body said "Hey lets catch this boy" I legged it ha.

ericpalmer (May 3, 2011 at 14:20)

hahaha, yeah, mambas, no thanks! I'm a little brave, not stupid! hahaha I saw cobras mating & was about 2-3m from them, they turned around to leave, but being stuck together in the bush made it a bit tricky, the looks I got when they turned around made me realise my voyeuristic stay needed to come to an end & told my buddy to bolt before we were in the shit.

obee1 (May 4, 2011 at 8:49)

ack! puff adder! i saw some snakes in aus a few years back, not too many in canada. such a beautiful animal. i was just watching this honey badger eat a puff adder. now the honey badger, thats a crazy animal. check it out.

www.badassoftheweek.com/honeybadger.html

ericpalmer (May 4, 2011 at 9:14)

yeah, they're immune to the poison, just pass out & wake up & carry on eating. Crazy strong lil bastards those guys. My dad did a lot of work with them a few yrs back. That's one animal you don't want to piss off! Puff Adders are slightly more friendly & not as fast

obee1 (May 4, 2011 at 9:44)

what kinda work did yoru dad do? was he a badger tamer? did he test perfume on them to see if it made the badger more attractive? haha. cheers eric.

Rawkus777 (May 3, 2011 at 13:42)

Where'd you get the Puffy from? I kept loads of snakes when I was back in SA. Could get these bad boys for R30 each as baby's but never bought one ha

ericpalmer (May 3, 2011 at 13:51)

Had to remove it from someone's garden less than a km from my house. Yeah, I had loads of snakes as a kid, puffy's are not my kind of pet though, more house snakes (brown, olive & aurora), egg eaters & had a young reticulate python & anaconda, but didn't keep 'em for long for obvious reasons. Yeah, lots of illegal snake sales going on here.

simi105 (May 3, 2011 at 13:31)

What type of snake is that Eric? I hope no photographers were harmed in the making of this shot!

amajors (May 3, 2011 at 13:38)

puff adder--- nasty if you surprise them, but chilled otherwise...

ericpalmer (May 3, 2011 at 13:40)

It's a Puff Adder, pretty poisonous, but not really aggressive. Most bites from them are because they are camo & ppl step on them.
Luckily no photographers harmed, got check ericpalmer.webgarden.com for some more of her. Had to remove her from someone's garden.

Jim-laden (May 4, 2011 at 4:57)

Love the "eye focus" and the light reflection. You should post some more animals...

ericpalmer (May 4, 2011 at 5:28)

Thanks man! I'll post one or 2 shots from the shoots I do, but most of it will be on my site ericpalmer.webgarden.com

Jim-laden (May 8, 2011 at 12:58)

nice pics on you site... quite interesting "animals" if you know what I mean

keep it up!

ericpalmer (May 9, 2011 at 1:12)

hahaha, thanks man! Yeah, we have a few special species here in Africa

brett236 (May 3, 2011 at 13:28)

these snake pictures are pretty sick man

ericpalmer (May 3, 2011 at 13:40)

thanks man!

NielEngelbrecht (May 25, 2011 at 23:04)

imagine you wake up one morning and see this lying on your chest.....R.I.P