If you go down to the woods today...

Over the weekend, in between posting flyers around north Tel Aviv, we popped over to the forest next to Rosh Ha'ayin. Z is always delighted, of course, a willing participant. However, after coming across a f**king huge snake sunning itself on a rock, I'm not so sure he'll be so willing in the future. He usually finds something interesting to chase or sniff at, but this time I was sure his day had come. This snake was huge, maybe even 2 metres, dark grey in color, and pissed at Z for having the cheek to wake him from his snooze. After shouting at Z to get the hell away, he finally obeyed and the snake slithered back under a rock. It scared the crap out of me, mainly because of its size...I've since tried searching on the Web for a description but can only find details of vipers, which it definitely wasn't. Any ideas? It was probably a harmless grass snake but it was HUGE (and before you ask, this was pre-beer). As a fisherman once said, 'It was THIS big'.

Below are some pictures, no snake I'm afraid...in the third picture you can just about see the buildings of Tel Aviv on the skyline.