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Perhaps under 'your worst nightmare' RP ?

My goody golly goshness!!

That's one m£$rova snake..RP!! ...I hope I never have meet him!

now i much rather prefer our 1m puffies in the eastern cape

Puffies of this size are only known to occur in Kenya where they get up to about six feet (1,8 m)
The guy holding it does not look taler than 6 feet and and the way he is holding would put it the snake just about on 6 feet
If it is not a hoax pic....

YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSE TO HOLD A HEAVY BODIED SNAKE LIKE THIS I DONT LIKE HIS HANDELING EQUIPMENT EITHER

Bliksem!

Wow, that is a BIG one…we once saw a similar sized one in the Kgalagadi.



I agree with you…many people use this makeshift “devise” but it chokes the snake.

They use them in Kruger aswell......

If you look carefully, there is a faint "shadowline" running all the way down the left (OUR left) side of the snake!

Also, puffadders have very short "tails", so I think the snake more or less ends where the pic would lead one to believe that it goes on up to where the "outstretched" arm and hand would be!

Therefore, a "photoshopped" hoax pic!

(Picked up by Perks... (Not the snake, the falsification!) )

So stupid!!!

Below a photo of the biggest pufffy we have ever seen…was during our Kgalagadi trip in 2006. The photo does not really show its size …there is nothing to compare it too….tried to convince the SO to go and stand next to it so I can get a “decent” photo, but he thought of all silly reasons not to do so.
This puffy actually looked like a python….was quite a sight!






Well that will be a good cause to raise funds for….a proper snake catching stick for every camp! I have seen people using this makeshift device, and people using a proper stick….the later is definitely a more safer way to catch a snake….for the person who has to do it and for the snake.

that's a pretty impressive Puffie

I find it very distressing that some snake catcher tools "choke" the target.

Some people have no appreciation of nature!

Great pic, Jumbo!

Genaaade (Translate = eish).. what a puffie, it does indeed look like a python

Yes terrible hey RP

They swim. And they love the beach. A relative was bitten on the ankle in 2006 [up in Harold Porter's Chrystal Pools] whilst dangling his luckless legs in the water [and I have seen them - only twice - in Ion Williams's Vogelgat pools]. Quite a mission getting him down - took about 6-8 months to recover [he is diabetic which didn't help tissue healing]. We see them on Die Plaat in Hermanus and environs, lying parallel to beached seaweed, always on the shadow side, cooling down in Summer.

Good idea
I will provide it at cost.... my own design and custom build with a lifetime garantee

If this true, then indeed an impressive size puffie. But I agree with everyone that is against the handling equipment. I am surprised and shocked to hear that this type of catching equipment is actually used by staff in the Kruger. Is this true?

Maybe we can ask the Honorary Rangers for their assistance to help supply proper hook sticks and grab sticks to the camps??