Tracking the elusive Habu Snakes of Okinawa through Yambaru’s jungles, from native legends to rare encounters with the mysterious Silver Habu.
Wildlife of the Yanbaru
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Tracking the elusive Habu Snakes of Okinawa through Yambaru’s jungles, from native legends to rare encounters with the mysterious Silver Habu.
Ahh the Snakes of Okinawa, some love them, most hate them, or at least steer clear of them. Alas I’m unlike most people wherein I actively go in search of them for photographic opportunities. Heading north, it was the middle of March, almost a year and a day to a similar trek I made to the same location. I was looking to test a theory as to when the Himei, or ‘Princess’, Habu would emerge from their Winter sleep. I […]