RE: Talk to me
Dying of fright can be an option too with venomous snakes- especially if you get bitten in the boot! That's a CLOSE CALL!
Usually snakes are hibernating in the winter months in Africa so you don't see many snakes (our summer months). What happened is that South Africa was having an unusually wet winter (it rained in the evening with violent storms) and the reptiles wake from hibernation for self preservation reasons (they intuitively know that the water could flood their dens and drown them). That's why I happened to encounter them (lucky me).
Ant