A week ago I was making a sandwich in the open, under cover, kitchen of my new digs. The kitchen is adjacent to the canal that in turn feeds the rice fields that are my view which is framed by some vines. I noticed a smallish, thin vivid green snake amongst the vines, it looked as though it had evolved to mimic the green stems of the vine and I made a mental note to take a photo of the cute little snake next time I saw it.
A couple of days later there was an almighty commotion from the rice field workers as they were carrying out some maintenance of the canal banks and it's tributaries. I looked up from my book (luddite ref') and they were in a great state of agitation pointing to the bank. I saw a vivid green little snake making its way out of the water and into the undergrowth, it was maybe 1/2 a metre long and seemed as thick as one of my fingers. One of them grabbed a long, long stick flushed it into the open and beat it to death. Once dead everyone still kept a good distance and the long stick was used to lift it onto a pathway and then the critter was beaten into post death into several reincarnations later.
After noticing the reddish tail that melded with the vivid green body I looked up Bali snakes and am still undecided as to whether it may have been a juvenile pit viper or another less venomous slitherer as it didn't seem to fit the 'thick bodied' description that I'd read about. I grew up in Oz and am not afraid of snakes but I don't go getting all 'Steve Irwin' on them either, although I did get a nice shot of what turned out to be a spitting cobra up Medewi a while ago. Any snake charmers out there?
A couple of days later there was an almighty commotion from the rice field workers as they were carrying out some maintenance of the canal banks and it's tributaries. I looked up from my book (luddite ref') and they were in a great state of agitation pointing to the bank. I saw a vivid green little snake making its way out of the water and into the undergrowth, it was maybe 1/2 a metre long and seemed as thick as one of my fingers. One of them grabbed a long, long stick flushed it into the open and beat it to death. Once dead everyone still kept a good distance and the long stick was used to lift it onto a pathway and then the critter was beaten into post death into several reincarnations later.
After noticing the reddish tail that melded with the vivid green body I looked up Bali snakes and am still undecided as to whether it may have been a juvenile pit viper or another less venomous slitherer as it didn't seem to fit the 'thick bodied' description that I'd read about. I grew up in Oz and am not afraid of snakes but I don't go getting all 'Steve Irwin' on them either, although I did get a nice shot of what turned out to be a spitting cobra up Medewi a while ago. Any snake charmers out there?
. If I remember correctly it was closer to a resort that was south of Medewi point and over another river. If this works I'll post a few photo's that I took just after the snake shot and as I headed toward Medewi itself.
