Snake catcher drives 191 kilometres (there and back) to bag mamba
Harding Saps Crime Prevention Unit members came to help by escorting them to the correct turn-off.
It’s seems to be the week (or month) of the black mamba. Snake catcher Sarel van der Merwe recently managed to catch two lengthy black mambas in the space of a week. He bagged a rather thick and lengthy black mamba on a farm in Hibberdene. He said the ‘chubby’ black mamba measured more than three metres in length. The snake was also ‘in the blue’, meaning it’s about to shed.
They had just left the farm when the owner phoned Sarel again, to help catch a green mamba – which, undoubtedly, he did. Earlier in the same week, Sarel had stopped at Bronson Naude’s surf shop in Manaba when he received a call about a black mamba in Harding. Bronson decided to join Sarel for the trip. After driving more than 80km, they still couldn’t find the turnoff in the mist.
But Harding Saps Crime Prevention Unit members came to help, escorting them to the correct turn-off. Once they found the house, still some distance inland, Bronson assisted Sarel in removing sheets and rubble to find the snake. After putting the mamba in his new snake bucket, Sarel waved goodbye to a very relieved and happy community.
By the time he returned home he’d added 191km to his odometer. Not that he minds, of course.
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