chinese cobra

As the weather was too HOT to do any decent hike lately... D & I resorted to cycling to make up for the lack of exercise to maintain our fitness level. We had cycled a few times around Tung Chung area. Once I had a nasty fall as I was cycling down a slope, my cap was blown away by the strong wind, I tried to retrieve it with one of my hands, lost my balance and crashed! Need more work on my balancing....- _-
Yesterday, we cycled up a footpath parallel to Tung Chung Road, it was a tough ascend.. On the way back the same path, D sighted a cobra!! I was way ahead and had passed it without noticing it, Happy our dog was right behind me. I heard D shouting at the back, for a moment I thought he found some puppies (we were on the look out for puppies in this area for some days already). I backtracked and saw a black cobra !! For the first time in my life I saw a real life cobra! It was a black chinese cobra (venomous & dangerous). I have seen the harmless greater green snakes and green pit vipers (venomous, nasty but not fatal) on our hikes and two red-necked keelback (venomous & dangerous) at the main entrance of our previous house before. D was telling me to quickly leash Happy and to stay away from the cobra. He told me that earlier, he saw Happy ran over the cobra as the cobra was crossing the path. It went into it's attack stance...
The snake was history!! D felt bad! One justification is, the cobra is a deadly venomous snake and it poses a danger to unsuspecting passerby on this footpath... Thank God Happy was unharmed!!

P.S. It's Happy's birthday today! She is two years old already!