Thursday 31st December 2015
I wasn’t too worried about having a resident frog in the
bathroom until the day I found a snake there too. It was pointed out to me that
snakes come indoors to seek out frogs!
This was the first live snake we’d seen in Cambodia and it
was big – about 3-4 foot long - probably venomous and perched on a ledge on the
inside of the bathroom door. My hand must have been about 3 inches from its
nose as I shut the door but it wasn’t until I sat on the toilet that I spotted
it.
Not feeling confident in our snake-handling skills, we left
the bungalow quietly and called for assistance. Michael and the gardener
arrived armed with badminton racquets! Then everyone else crowded round,
scattering in all directions with much squealing when the snake tried to escape.
Sadly, the gardener took the poor thing away and dispatched it before I could
get a photo.
Michael reassures us that a snake in a bungalow is a rare
occurrence – but then he would say that wouldn’t he!?
In other news, Roy and Viasna came down for a visit, the
highlight of which has to be the girls’ great victory in the afternoon pool tournament!
Yeay!
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| The bathroom's resident frog. He has to be discouraged from hiding behind the toilet seat lid. |
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| Everyone arrived to see the snake. Note Michael's weapon of choice - his badminton racquet! |
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| Trevann, meanwhile, was protecting his assets. |
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| We walked with Roy and Viasna along the seashore, stopping for a refreshing sugarcane drink. |
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| A serious moment in the sunset bar |
The day before, Trevann and I went with Dara to the local town, Kampot, to buy New Year fireworks, stopping for a beer in the Lazy Cat.
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| Kampot |
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| Hobie Cat and fisherman |
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| The Crab Market at Kep, our regular sunset watering hole |
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| These clematis-like flowers are actually on trees. Another pod-producing species. |
The clematis like flower looks like a bauhinia. It should be fragrant? Its from the pea and bean family. Since you say it produces pods, its probably Phanera purpurea (syn. Bauhinia purpurea) as the similar looking ornamental cultivar Bauhinia x blakeana (a cross between Bauhinia variegata and Bauhinia purpurea) is perhaps sterile when self-pollinated, but may produce seed if pollinated instead by one of its parents.
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