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Dream find, GABOON!

PostPosted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 11:38 am
by Nick Evans
Over the past weekend, in Northern KwaZulu-Natal, myself, girlfriend and 2 friends came across something we were all dying to see...

Bitis gabonica!!

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Re: Dream find, GABOON!

PostPosted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 12:58 pm
by Thomas Reich
Great! Perfect camouflage in the leaf litter.

Re: Dream find, GABOON!

PostPosted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 1:14 pm
by RĂ©mon ter Harmsel
Saw your post on FB, great find! Never found one in the wild myself unfortunately...

Re: Dream find, GABOON!

PostPosted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 1:48 pm
by Matthijs Hollanders
Amazing. What's the story?

Re: Dream find, GABOON!

PostPosted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 2:23 pm
by Andre Schmid
Stunning animal :o Congrats on this nice find !

Re: Dream find, GABOON!

PostPosted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 3:01 pm
by Jeroen Speybroeck
What a beast, great!!!

Re: Dream find, GABOON!

PostPosted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 5:15 pm
by Nick Evans
Thanks all! Amazing animal indeed!

Re: Dream find, GABOON!

PostPosted: Thu Apr 09, 2015 9:37 pm
by Bastien Comment
And another stunning post! What a camouflage and what a monster! Within 3 posts, you've pictured all my wife's worst nightmares since she is with me, the Gaboon being her worst of the worst (but also one of my biggest target on the worldwide snake species unfortunately for her ;)). At least, this will make her appreciate our aspis and berus more than ever :lol:

Re: Dream find, GABOON!

PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 12:11 pm
by Berislav Horvatic
Bastien Comment wrote:At least, this will make her appreciate our aspis and berus more than ever :lol:

Not only her. I've had the feeling for a long time that we, poor Europeans, are so terribly proud of handling our little
worms, while the real guys play with mambas & c. ...