Guilty as charged re Eryx.. they do look like dead sticks.. through a cloud of Marlborough smoke
I think you picked up more snakes as you are off like a hungry whippet when you see one.. I am still gathering hooks and torches All this complaining that you are an old man.. I reckon your only a teenager..
I may not have photographic proof of the gecko incident.. but it was funny to see someone that handles daboia like puppies run away from a ten gram stenodactylus