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Originally posted by RSIMMONS:
I was with Dirk when this video was shot. Due to the harsh wind, we decided to still hunt a water hole after lunch one day. Dirk was walking the perimeter looking for leopard tracks. I saw the snake come out of the brush into the open bank about 100 yards away opposite the bank Dirk was on. I yelled out that there was a big snake and once Dirk saw it, he said “Let's catch it†as he ran by me. Once he got up on it, the size became apparent. He decided it was too big to “catchâ€. The markings on this critter were beautiful. We were both standing with a couple of feet of this snake and it had no fear of us. Most of the video is shot from the blind. The snake swan around the water hole for about an hour. At one point there were some ducks that were swimming and driving under and around the snake as it swan. I thought I was going to witness a Nation Geographic moment but the snake wasn't aggressive/hungry at all. Eventually it exited the water into the brush on the opposite bank. Within a few minutes of the first snake leaving the water, we saw another snake of equal size come into view exactly where we saw the first snake appeared. It crawled into the water and stayed submerged. We were there at least another 2 hours and never saw it resurface. For me, this was probably a once in a life time treasure.