Snakes

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:45 pm

Summertime in the country - heigh ho!!! I was swimming with some friends and happened to glance over to the grassy side of the pool (maybe 2 feet away) and met a pair of eyes glancing back at me. These were slithery eyes, not rustling eyes - so my single blonde neuron with unaccustomed speed pronounced NOT LIZARD. THIS IS A SNAKE. And it wanted to join us in the pool. Snakes are very very fast in the water. But we got out faster. It was a five foot Eastern brown snake - one of the most deadly snakes around. But it was beautiful too

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Barman · Post by **Barman** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 2:16 am

Good grief i would have been on the plane home before the bugger hit the water.:wah:

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 4:20 am

Yikes!

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 4:46 am

I walked back that way in the evening and saw another, smaller one in the same place. Maybe there was a ?nest of them there??? I didn't investigate too much, and continued swimming each day, but had a good look first! I'm not scared of snakes as such, but have a very very healthy respect for them. And if in doubt... ya get the heck outta there, expeditiously!!!

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 8:50 am

AussiePam;1255539 wrote: Summertime in the country - heigh ho!!! I was swimming with some friends and happened to glance over to the grassy side of the pool (maybe 2 feet away) and met a pair of eyes glancing back at me. These were slithery eyes, not rustling eyes - so my single blonde neuron with unaccustomed speed pronounced NOT LIZARD. THIS IS A SNAKE. And it wanted to join us in the pool. Snakes are very very fast in the water. But we got out faster. It was a five foot Eastern brown snake - one of the most deadly snakes around. But it was beautiful too

that's awesome, I love snakes!

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 10:27 am

I wouldn't want to be around a deadly snake! No way, no how!

Imladris · Post by **Imladris** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 12:20 pm

Odie;1255656 wrote: that's awesome, I love snakes!

So do I. My brother-in-law who lives in Oz thought I was mad when we were out there, I wanted to see snakes in the wild not just in the zoo!:wah:

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 12:53 pm

In all my bushwalking, Immy, I haven't seen many. A red bellied black snake once, stretched across the trail, sunning itself. Another time a cluster of juvenile browns warming up. A couple of grass snakes and once, recently a yellow and blue sea snake washed up on the beach, but alive.

This is a true story. Maybe six or seven years ago I was climbing one of the hills surrounding the capital city, Canberra. I was wearing green, had long hair then and I was carrying my tin whistle. I often played up there, the wind would twist the notes inside out and make them wail in a weirdly irresistible way. Out in the bush, you rarely meet anyone, but down the hill a man was coming towards me. In a very broad Irish accent he warned me that there was a big snake up ahead stretched across the path. I greeted him in Irish, waved my tin whistle, and told him with the most genuine fakest Irish accented English I could do that sure and I'd banish the wee critter like I'd helped St Paddy sort the shnakes in Oireland. The man just stopped dead in his tracks, stared at me like I was a fairy woman, a banshee - then bolted like a bat out of hell, crossing himself.

:sneaky:

cars · Post by **cars** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 2:20 pm

JUST

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 2:46 pm

AussiePam;1255756 wrote: In all my bushwalking, Immy, I haven't seen many. A red bellied black snake once, stretched across the trail, sunning itself. Another time a cluster of juvenile browns warming up. A couple of grass snakes and once, recently a yellow and blue sea snake washed up on the beach, but alive.

This is a true story. Maybe six or seven years ago I was climbing one of the hills surrounding the capital city, Canberra. I was wearing green, had long hair then and I was carrying my tin whistle. I often played up there, the wind would twist the notes inside out and make them wail in a weirdly irresistible way. Out in the bush, you rarely meet anyone, but down the hill a man was coming towards me. In a very broad Irish accent he warned me that there was a big snake up ahead stretched across the path. I greeted him in Irish, waved my tin whistle, and told him with the most genuine fakest Irish accented English I could do that sure and I'd banish the wee critter like I'd helped St Paddy sort the shnakes in Oireland. The man just stopped dead in his tracks, stared at me like I was a fairy woman, a banshee - then bolted like a bat out of hell, crossing himself.

:sneaky:

So funny!

cars · Post by **cars** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 3:21 pm

AussiePam;1255756 wrote: In all my bushwalking, Immy, I haven't seen many. A red bellied black snake once, stretched across the trail, sunning itself. Another time a cluster of juvenile browns warming up. A couple of grass snakes and once, recently a yellow and blue sea snake washed up on the beach, but alive.

This is a true story. Maybe six or seven years ago I was climbing one of the hills surrounding the capital city, Canberra. I was wearing green, had long hair then and I was carrying my tin whistle. I often played up there, the wind would twist the notes inside out and make them wail in a weirdly irresistible way. Out in the bush, you rarely meet anyone, but down the hill a man was coming towards me. In a very broad Irish accent he warned me that there was a big snake up ahead stretched across the path. I greeted him in Irish, waved my tin whistle, and told him with the most genuine fakest Irish accented English I could do that sure and I'd banish the wee critter like I'd helped St Paddy sort the shnakes in Oireland. The man just stopped dead in his tracks, stared at me like I was a fairy woman, a banshee - then bolted like a bat out of hell, crossing himself.

:sneaky:
Well as you may or may not know, I HATE SNAKES! My wife is "terrified" of them. Seeing them "outside" is bad enough! So low & behold, would'nt ya know, a slithering critter slithered all the way through our A/C condensation pipe about 50 feet long, and into our A/C unit drain pan inside our house. Well it eventually made it out of the unit, and wound up coiled on the floor "4" feet away from my wife's feet who was on the computer in our sunroom at the time! She screamed SNAKE at the top of her lungs, & I ran to the closet, grabbed a rake & scouped it up and threw it outside!!! However, the serinitity of our castle will forever be changed. We were leaving in 2 days anyway to go back North, we made it, we were able to live there. But now, we are going back on December 5th, & I'm not sure if she can live there any longer. Don't know bout me either! Time will tell!!! We just may wind up looking for a new place!:wah:

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 9:32 pm

AussiePam;1255756 wrote: The man just stopped dead in his tracks, stared at me like I was a fairy woman, a banshee - then bolted like a bat out of hell, crossing himself.

I can see that.

hoppy · Post by **hoppy** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 6:00 am

Dad, an uncle and I used to hunt snakes. That's how a few bullet holes got put in the bottom of our boat. A huge snake fell off an overhanging tree branch into the boat. Instant mayhem.

farmer giles · Post by **farmer giles** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 6:32 am

this would make a great film

snakes on a pam :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 12:40 pm

G'day Hoppy, Nomad, Jimbo!!!

I've never seen an English snake, though I know there are some. I have however seen quite a few American snakes. Or in one case - NOT.

I woke up quite early one morning. Tucumcari, New Mexico. As one might. My companion was still asleep so I decided to go out for a run, and the desert beckoned - red earth, fantastic shaped rocks, cactus.

Finally, energy spent, I needed coffee and found a gas station open where a dark brew was bubbling away. Told the bloke there that I had deliberately gone out so early while it was still cool, before the rattlers got warmed up and active!!!!! He just rolled around the floor pissing himself with mirth. OOOPS.

Get your kicks on Route 66 !!!

hoppy · Post by **hoppy** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 2:38 pm

AussiePam;1256037 wrote: G'day Hoppy, Nomad, Jimbo!!!

I've never seen an English snake, though I know there are some. I have however seen quite a few American snakes. Or in one case - NOT.

I woke up quite early one morning. Tucumcari, New Mexico. As one might. My companion was still asleep so I decided to go out for a run, and the desert beckoned - red earth, fantastic shaped rocks, cactus.

Finally, energy spent, I needed coffee and found a gas station open where a dark brew was bubbling away. Told the bloke there that I had deliberately gone out so early while it was still cool, before the rattlers got warmed up and active!!!!! He just rolled around the floor pissing himself with mirth. OOOPS.

Get your kicks on Route 66 !!!

:yh_rotfl I bet that ended the early runs.

When my dad was prospecting around Idaho/Montana, he always carried bubble gum. When he came upon a big rattler, he would chew up a big wad, put it on the end of a long stick and hold it out in front of the snake. Snake would strike at the wad of gum, then thrash around trying to get rid of it.

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 7:55 pm

hoppy;1256077 wrote: :yh_rotfl I bet that ended the early runs.

When my dad was prospecting around Idaho/Montana, he always carried bubble gum. When he came upon a big rattler, he would chew up a big wad, put it on the end of a long stick and hold it out in front of the snake. Snake would strike at the wad of gum, then thrash around trying to get rid of it.

Yes, I can see that might work, Hoppy. We had a trunk full of hardware - so if I'd done another early run, I'd have borrowed a semi-auto.

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 8:21 pm

Imladris;1255749 wrote: So do I. My brother-in-law who lives in Oz thought I was mad when we were out there, I wanted to see snakes in the wild not just in the zoo!:wah:

:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

whenever I'm in a pet store, I must hold them!

my family thinks I'm nutso!:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 8:23 pm

cars;1255788 wrote: Well as you may or may not know, I HATE SNAKES! My wife is "terrified" of them. Seeing them "outside" is bad enough! So low & behold, would'nt ya know, a slithering critter slithered all the way through our A/C condensation pipe about 50 feet long, and into our A/C unit drain pan inside our house. Well it eventually made it out of the unit, and wound up coiled on the floor "4" feet away from my wife's feet who was on the computer in our sunroom at the time! She screamed SNAKE at the top of her lungs, & I ran to the closet, grabbed a rake & scouped it up and threw it outside!!! However, the serinitity of our castle will forever be changed. We were leaving in 2 days anyway to go back North, we made it, we were able to live there. But now, we are going back on December 5th, & I'm not sure if she can live there any longer. Don't know bout me either! Time will tell!!! We just may wind up looking for a new place!:wah:

oh yes, I remember how afraid your wife is.

Now, I would not want to see snakes in my house either.