A nature photographer had a brush with a venomous sea snake whereas he was mendacity in mud photographing mudskippers.
Nick Volpe’s shocked response to the black-ringed mangrove snake slithering behind him is justified, given {that a} chunk would have been nasty.
“Whilst we were deep in mud photographing mudskippers, I noticed a shrimp goby jump in front of me, before realising it was being followed by a venomous black-ringed mangrove snake,” Nick mentioned of the expertise.
He admitted that whereas sea snakes are “fairly reluctant to bite”, they’re “very venomous” and he would have wanted to go straight to hospital if bitten.
Nick was photographing wildlife in Darwin, the capital of Australia’s Northern Territory, when he noticed the snake.