He was eventually proven right but found on his first in-person visit to the site that the reptile had retreated into a “massive wood pile with a few bushes around it”.
Mr Evans said that, after a struggle to scope it out, he saw the “massive” mamba.
He wrote that the snake’s body was “so thick it barely fitted” in the pile, adding it was “impossible” to get a pair of snake-catching tongs around it.
After several attempts to shift the snake from its hiding spot, Mr Evans said it “knew it was in big trouble”.
