".....in the mangrove swamps where the python romps"
That would in fact be a Burmese Python as they are most likely to be found in mangroves, being semi aquatic.
Chill day. Breakfast early then a short snooze. Up and about doing some more model boat bashing. Carefully trying to bend, curve, glue, pin, clamp a 1.5mm x 3mm strip of wood along the length of the hull without it snapping or splitting from the pins pushed through. Very, very, very FTFTBBW!
Might move on to 1/12 scale Alfa in a bit and get thoroughly annoyed with SuperGlue again..
Reading this makes me think that neither of these activites result in a chill day.
Pic of current works...