Great photos, @joanstewart. Is the baboon in your first photo injured?
That mother and baby are so sweet. As for snakes - pretty or not, I prefer to give them a wide berth. That said, we do get harlequin snakes around here and they are really beautiful little things. I prefer it if the cats don't catch them.
Yes he was injured Fiona, obviously fighting for his male rights, he was an imposing figure around the area.
Snakes do so much good, I too give them wide berth irrespective of knowing they are not venomous, how my brother even considered stopping to photograph the Rinkhals was beyond me, I would have been out of there in a flash.