Peringuey's Adder, otherwise known as the Sidewinder

Close to an old and abandoned railway line we were again on the search. Tommy directed us to an area of scrub claiming he had found one. I peered closer and couldn’t see a thing. Eventually, thanks to a lot of “if you look at that stick” and “follow it up” and “a bit to the left” I could see what I thought was part of a tail. It was tiny! When we saw the whole snake as it eventually moved I could see the head was smaller than my thumb nail. The snake slowly moved to an area of sand and we were lucky to watch how it buried itself - it seemed to almost invisibly caress the sand by massaging the ground around it until only its eyes, evolved to be on top of its head rather than on the side like other snakes, were visible. How you would ever find one like this is beyond me. We left the little guy and continued our search.