These were not the tourist ready hold a snakes. These were the kill Jeff variety!
I ws told by the experts that there strike range was about two and a half feet so I shot them from about four feet above at 100mm.
There were about 150 snakes and the rattling was loud and rattled my nerves! I made about thirty fives frames looking for the right composition and then I remembered to breathe!
A couple of days later a local family had five puppies bitten by a single snake.
Happily myself and the puppies are all alive!