If you’ve visited us (at Môreson Wine Farm) you’ll know that the farm is flanked by the Forestry. This means that a whole heap of wild animals including lynx, wild pigs, buck, porcupines and other animals often pay us a visit. We love the fact that they enjoy spending time on Môreson and we don’t even mind that the pigs regularly tear apart our lawn looking for food – after all this is their home as much as it is ours.

There is (however) one group of animals that always seems gets the raw end of the deal – the reptiles, specifically snakes.  If your skin started crawling a little it’s totally OK – ours used to do the same! But we’ve recently discovered that snakes (and other reptiles) are grossly misunderstood.

Klaas, Andre, Hannes, John, Clayton, Hanri and The Python.

Last week we had The Reptile Education Dude come out to the farm to teach us all about snakes. He was fantastic and the snakes (and other reptiles) were awesome! Everyone who took part learnt all kinds of things including:

• how shy and misunderstood snakes and other reptiles are
• how to behave around snakes
• how to handle them if they need to be relocated.

We’re pretty excited because now we know how to handle snakes (that we come across) in the least harmful and traumatising (for both of us) way.

Now we just need to come across a snake (or two) so we can practice our newly acquired knowledge and skills.

Klaas, Hanri and The Python - one big happy family.

Clayton - Môreson Winemaker and snake charmer.

The Reptile Education Dude, Klaas's new friend and Klaas.