After all these years of kayaking in the mangroves and looking at these snakes hundreds of times, I have finally gotten a shot of the Mangrove Pit Viper, Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus.
And I have only this one photo.....
This viper grows to a length of about 105 cm only and it is actually a rather small snake, so don't be deceived by the perceived size of the snake in this photo, which had also been cropped a little.
On this particular morning, a total of three Mangrove Pit Vipers were spotted, two of which were within 2 meters of each other though the third viper was some distance away.
I had with me a camera with only 5.0x optical zoom and wishing I had 50x zoom!
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