I was walking through the Lowveld National Botanical Gardens in February at a very leisurely pace when suddenly this guy slowly moved away from me, and went into a hole in the ground (not deep - I know this cause stupid me, tried peeping into the hole to see where the snake went.... )
So I decided to stay deadstill waiting for him to show again, cause I wanted a more decent look at him.... eventually I forgot about him while photographing some of the birds in the tree across the path, when I noticed him again, he came out of the hole and was looking straight at me. A rather unsettling feeling, he didnt seem scared at all.
Fortunately I decided to leave him alone and walk on....thank goodness, cause someone has now ID'd him for me as a Mozambique Spitting cobra