Comments on: Old Coral Walls of Amami http://regex.info/blog/2008-02-04/714 Not a photo blog. A personal blog with photos. Tue, 22 May 2012 20:20:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: JM http://regex.info/blog/2008-02-04/714#comment-39683 JM Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:08:28 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2008-02-04/714#comment-39683 Thanks for these nice coral wall pictures! It's a pity they don't do these walls anymore and replace them with bricks.. Can one learn how they are built? I would love to make one. I read somewhere they replace them with brick walls so that habu dont hide in them.. Habus are certainly an issue but if one is careful enough it shouldnt be an issue. It s not like they are everywhere anytime. They are mostly nocturnal... or come out in the evening.. or so I was told. I came across one at 2am in seitouchi, sokaru. He was taking the whole length of the beach trail in the back... He didnt even try to hide so I took a dead branch and had him climb on it.. I was surprised that he wasnt even aggressive.. that was until I put him on a tree and tried to bring him down again with a long metal stick I found outside someone's yard.. It was a bit forceful so I suppose he didnt like that. He kept trying to bite so I had to be extra careful. While taking pictures and crouching in front of him I realised my legs were shaking... Even after having handled snakes since the age of 6, it s still really scary to be faced with one knowing the bite can be extremely painful and do irreversible tissue damage.. Is there any stats on the number of bites? And is it possible to buy some serum and learn how to keep it and dose it etc..? Thanks for these nice coral wall pictures!
It’s a pity they don’t do these walls anymore and replace them with bricks.. Can one learn how they are built? I would love to make one.

I read somewhere they replace them with brick walls so that habu dont hide in them.. Habus are certainly an issue but if one is careful enough it shouldnt be an issue. It s not like they are everywhere anytime. They are mostly nocturnal… or come out in the evening.. or so I was told.

I came across one at 2am in seitouchi, sokaru. He was taking the whole length of the beach trail in the back… He didnt even try to hide so I took a dead branch and had him climb on it.. I was surprised that he wasnt even aggressive.. that was until I put him on a tree and tried to bring him down again with a long metal stick I found outside someone’s yard.. It was a bit forceful so I suppose he didnt like that. He kept trying to bite so I had to be extra careful.

While taking pictures and crouching in front of him I realised my legs were shaking… Even after having handled snakes since the age of 6, it s still really scary to be faced with one knowing the bite can be extremely painful and do irreversible tissue damage..

Is there any stats on the number of bites? And is it possible to buy some serum and learn how to keep it and dose it etc..?

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