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I deceided to get out more shoot more photo's.
Nick and Myself Headed out the other day for a couple actually.

Some photo's , some snakes and some good times.
This is almost more so an editorial with a collection of images than just the animals we encountered along the way.
It's pretty cool what you can achieve by looking at the smaller things and giving them some attention.

Arriving in the dark has it's perks about 100 meters from the Mozambique Border.
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Acontias plumbeas - Giant Leggless Skink.
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Amblyodipsas polylepis - Common Gloss Snake.
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Amietophrynus garmani - Eastern olive toad.
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Arthroleptis wahlbergii - Bush Squeeker
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Bitis arietans - Puff Adder.
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Absolutely minute smallest one i have ever seen.
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Philothamnus natelnsis natelnsis - Eastern Natal Green Snake
Checking out a rather feisty Eastern Green Snake.
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Psammophis mossambicus - Olive Grass Snake -
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Chiromantis xerampelina - Foam Nest Frog.
One of my personal favourite species.
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Dipsadoboa aulica - Marbled tree snake.
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Dispholidus typus - Bloomslang.
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Dispholidus typus - Bloomslang.
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PineApple Fields
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Naja annulifera - Snouted Cobra.
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Day light fading.
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We lost count of the amount of these we saw dead.
Psammophis mossambicus - Olive Grass Snake.
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Naja melanoleuca - Forest Cobra.

Small forest cobra
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Nick photo bombing.
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All about the angles.
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Ptychadena anchietae - Anchieta's Ridged Frog.
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Ptychadena mossambica - Broad Banded Grass Frog.
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A different colour variety of the same species along the same streach of road.
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Kosi Bay
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Traditional Fish Traps in the estuary>
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Quick look inside.
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Beach souvenirs.
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Ptychadena porosissima - Striped Grass Frog.
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Another unlucky:
Kinixys belliana - Bell's hinge-back tortoise
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Pyxicephalus edulis - African Bull Frog.
Funny thing i literally said to Nick that we hadn't seen any of these frogs in the last three or four trips up north.
Ten minutes later we were driving along a sandy road and saw probably about 200 all over the road. Al about the size of a 20c coin.
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Tomopterna krugerensis - knocking sand frog.
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Thought this cat could use some water.
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Adios, so lomh and thanks for the skull.
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Fantastic!
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Love your posts
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Thanks for the responses.
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Thanks for the good look at your area. I loved the tour. Great pics and story.
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Awesome post, ridiculously fantastic photos. That baby Puff Adder is intense!

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Fantastic
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Great photography and finds! Any full body shots of the legless skink?
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Mike VanValen wrote:Great photography and finds! Any full body shots of the legless skink?
Thanks Mike , not the same individual but from the same trip
just didn't post it due to quality

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Great photos! Thank you for sharing
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