So I was driving down the road one day in northern Nicaragua with the motorcycle when I noticed a large hose in the road which as I approached turned out to be a big ass snake. I swerved to avoid the snake but didn't want to swerve too recklessly so I was on track to run over the tail end of the snake. The snake, it turns out, was not keen on having its tail squashed. The snake turned around to protect its tail and raised its head about 1.5 ft (.5 m) off the ground preparing to strike. At this point I was not keen on having my leg bitten by a snake so I raised my feet as high as I could so the snake wouldn't bite me and I whizzed by at about 50 kph and I don't think I ran it over and I don't know if it tried to strike.
It was about 8-9 ft (close to 3m) long, thin, mostly black but some reddish purple coloring at the tips and an iridescent glimmer. It was in the fairly moderate climate grassland area. I asked my friend the snake expert to identify it and he thought it was in the Indigo Snake family and after looking at the pictures and description I am pretty sure that’s what it was. The pictures represent the snake about right but the one I met was thinner, blacker and very long.
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