Snakes!

yep - a common sight around that area... get ready to bunny (or snake) hop
when you see one that takes up the whole path...

cheers,
GPL

"GPLama" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

yep - a common sight around that area... get ready to bunny (or snake) hop
when you see one that takes up the whole path...

cheers,
GPL

I had to bunny hop one where the path turns away from the freeway just
before you get to the bridge at Burke Rd......was daydreaming a bit when all
of a sudden I realised that the "stick" that was on the path a couple of
metres in front of me was moving. I had nowhere to go but up!!!!

I have also seen one crossing the path near Dwights Falls and another one
just before the Manningham Rd bridge near the nursery. These were all tiger
snakes and have all been in the last three years since I have been in
Melbourne. I am not overly fond of snakes but they don't concern me all
that much when I am on the bike.......reckon I would have to be pretty
unlucky to get bitten.

Ride On,

Gags

On 2005-10-04, GPLama (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

yep - a common sight around that area... get ready to bunny (or snake) hop
when you see one that takes up the whole path...

Gah! Ack!

Damn snakophobia.

--
TimC

Quoted message said:

If I hear the phrase "If I wasn't married I'd date you" one more time,
it's going to be rifles and watertowers time.

Yeah, it should be "if I _weren't_ married". I understand your pain.
-- Alan J Rosenthal replying to stevo on ASR

TimC said:

On 2005-10-04, GPLama (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

yep - a common sight around that area... get ready to bunny (or snake) hop
when you see one that takes up the whole path...

Gah! Ack!

Damn snakophobia.

Must practice snake hop. 🙂)

TimC said:

On 2005-10-04, GPLama (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

yep - a common sight around that area... get ready to bunny (or snake) hop
when you see one that takes up the whole path...

Gah! Ack!

Damn snakophobia.

I'm with you Tim. I stopped coming home that way after a couple of near
misses. I'll take my chances with the traffic.

DaveB

quote='DaveB'TimC said:

On 2005-10-04, GPLama (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

yep - a common sight around that area... get ready to bunny (or snake) hop
when you see one that takes up the whole path...

Gah! Ack!

Damn snakophobia.

I'm with you Tim. I stopped coming home that way after a couple of near
misses. I'll take my chances with the traffic.

DaveB[/QUOTE]

A choice b/w snakes and drivers.......HHMMMMMM!!!.....Now that the school holidays are over, with all those mums driving their precious little darlings to and from school, sport, music and dancing lessons, I might just take my chances with some pea-brained, prehistoric snakes. Is it me or do those people that send their kids to inner suburban private schools, with their abundance of public transport options, tend to drive their kids more than people who "choose" to go to "other" schools. Most of the private schools are surrounded by trains and trams, yet the traffic around is outrageous.

Pat

vaudegiant said:

DaveB said:

TimC said:

On 2005-10-04, GPLama (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

>yep - a common sight around that area... get ready to bunny (or

snake) hop

Quoted message said:

>when you see one that takes up the whole path...

Gah! Ack!

Damn snakophobia.

I'm with you Tim. I stopped coming home that way after a
couple of near
misses. I'll take my chances with the traffic.

DaveB

A choice b/w snakes and drivers.......HHMMMMMM!!!.....Now that the
school holidays are over, with all those mums driving their precious
little darlings to and from school, sport, music and dancing lessons, I
might just take my chances with some pea-brained, prehistoric snakes.
Is it me or do those people that send their kids to inner suburban
private schools, with their abundance of public transport options, tend
to drive their kids more than people who "choose" to go to "other"
schools. Most of the private schools are surrounded by trains and
trams, yet the traffic around is outrageous.

Pat

Oh sure, logically and statistically I should take my chances with the
snakes, but who said anything about fear being logical.

DaveB

Have spotteda few over the years. Near Burnley Bridge/Skipping Girl, wher eyou spotted yours near Burke Rd and one on the friggin Kew Boulevard!!!

first one made me come to a screeching holt AFTER i had ridden over the poor blighter. It's the arvo suntanning ones you gotta look out for on the bitumen paths. they get grumpy apparently. The YarraBend ranger told me a few stories about 'Sammy' who had a favourite spot along the walking only path near the pipebridge who had scored a few dogs and one walker over a 12month period

Wasnt there a movie where a bikie throws a snake into a driver's lap?
hmmmm, mah too hard to get into/out of jersey pocket 🙄

TimC said:

Gah! Ack!

Damn snakophobia.

What? The overwhelming fear of bite sized pizzas and packets of crisps?

😉

Graeme

On 2005-10-04, flyingdutch (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

first one made me come to a screeching holt AFTER i had ridden over the
poor blighter. It's the arvo suntanning ones you gotta look out for on
the bitumen paths. they get grumpy apparently. The YarraBend ranger
told me a few stories about 'Sammy' who had a favourite spot along the
walking only path near the pipebridge who had scored a few dogs and one
walker over a 12month period

Wasnt there a movie where a bikie throws a snake into a driver's lap?
hmmmm, mah too hard to get into/out of jersey pocket 🙄

I could imagine: "But they'll hurt my poor snake!"

--
TimC
To define recursion, we must first define recursion.

Claude wrote...

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I'm going to be seeing more of them this summer.

Oh. And I've just recently got used to spiders everywhere. And now I
have to start all over again with snakes. What is going to wake up next?
Hungry crocodiles on Yarra Trail in December?

"Timofey" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Claude wrote...

Quoted message said:

I'm going to be seeing more of them this summer.

Oh. And I've just recently got used to spiders everywhere. And now I
have to start all over again with snakes. What is going to wake up next?
Hungry crocodiles on Yarra Trail in December?

after last years floods, it wouldnt surprise me..
speaking of floods&crocs, given the smell around gardiners ck path after the
floods last year, i woulda prefered the crocs

"Timofey" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Claude wrote...

Quoted message said:

I'm going to be seeing more of them this summer.

Oh. And I've just recently got used to spiders everywhere. And now I
have to start all over again with snakes. What is going to wake up next?
Hungry crocodiles on Yarra Trail in December?

You don't usually see them until late January.

To continue the deviation from the thread, I have twice come close to being cleaned up by our most lovable marsupial the kangaroo. Never hit one yet. Both times the beast was probably as startled as I was. The second time was descending the Adelaide freeway in winter morning darkness - the 10w lamps did the trick just!!! The 'roo was munching away at something in the darkness under a failed street light. Phone call to ETSA has failed to have repairs effected. I'm not a lawyer, but had I suffered any loss, I reckon the failed light would have contributed!!!

These encounters with our native wildlife is probably not uncommon with a.b-ers but may be more intriguing for our foreign commrades.

Dee Dub

flyingdutch said:

Wasnt there a movie where a bikie throws a snake into a driver's lap?
hmmmm, mah too hard to get into/out of jersey pocket 🙄

Maybe a new tactic for the crits? or the Hawthorn champs next year, hmmmm.

vaudegiant said:

A choice b/w snakes and drivers.......HHMMMMMM!!!.....Now that the school holidays are over, with all those mums driving their precious little darlings to and from school, sport, music and dancing lessons, I might just take my chances with some pea-brained, prehistoric snakes. Is it me or do those people that send their kids to inner suburban private schools, with their abundance of public transport options, tend to drive their kids more than people who "choose" to go to "other" schools. Most of the private schools are surrounded by trains and trams, yet the traffic around is outrageous.

Pat

Hey! I'm one of those precious darlings!😠

But I couldn't agree with you more. I'm a usual public transporter, though now i've started commuting on the mountain bike (that's right lama, i've converted). It gives me the [censored]'s how many kids get driven everywhere! Ride a bike dammit.

"Gags" <gags_44nospamatnospamtpg.com.au> wrote in message
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I had to bunny hop one where the path turns away from the freeway just
before you get to the bridge at Burke Rd......

Now that must have been the same snake I saw or doubtless a direct ancestor.
Its the same spot where I had my encounter - in the stretch after you turn
to the left away from the freeway up until you turn right to track the river
(about 30 metres before the latter turn). Maybe we could do some
genealogical research?

quote='Graeme Dods'On Tue said:

Gah! Ack!

Damn snakophobia.

What? The overwhelming fear of bite sized pizzas and packets of crisps?

😉

Graeme[/QUOTE]

Ophidiophobia = fear of snakes

Hodophobia = fear of road travel

Motorphobia = fear of automobiles

Phobia list is at:
phobialist.comreverse.htmlOpen ↗

SteveA

GPLama said:

yep - a common sight around that area... get ready to bunny (or snake) hop
when you see one that takes up the whole path...

cheers,
GPL

That size is not uncommon here but thankfully they are usually carpet pythons.
If you see a snake ahead and are awake enough to work out which end is the head of the beastie ride a round that end of it. My observations (after being told by "an old bushie"😉 is that when a snake senses danger it will Always turn back, it knows where it just came from is safe and where it is going is unknown. If you ride behind it the " tactical withdrawl" option is gone. Of course that always relies on the hope that the snake is not already fleeing another threat so it wont turn back - wont go forward but will defend itself.
Give a snake plenty of room, the 4 metre fella I saw just before almost running over him about 2 weeks ago had a half hearted lunge at me of about a metre. Was a good moon and didnt have main light on to save battery

I live in a "Zoo" here, National Park on 3 sides and the Coral Sea on the 4th. 4m Python doing laps in the pool, a green tree snake that hides in the golden cane outside the kitchen window hoping to ambush birds, a goanna that takes shortcuts accross the solar pool blanket, echidna tearing garden beds apart looking for grubs and possums, and possums, and possums .... and Fu*% Brush Turkeys stealing mulch to build nest mounds.

Crocodiles - arrrgh - the one that dragged that guy out of his canoe and ate him about 3 weeks ago has been captured and is now living less than 400 metres from where I am sitting now! He has a big attitude problem with ppl and they are waiting for the highest bid from a croc farm or the likes of Steve Irwin. He is no good for shoes or handbags, too battle scarred. Could be used for armour plating I suppose.

Treat all sticks with suspicion but dont be alarmed

Hugh