Snakes!

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

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

DaveB

You get bitten by a Tiger Snake on average you have 4 hours or more to get
medical help, you get bitten by a Pajero and the odds are good that medical
help is of no use to you.

Dee Dub said:

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

Many of the Europeans I spoke to during my tour think that there is a very high chance of being bitten/eaten/mauled/etc just stepping foot outside an Australian house.

The paranoia about snakes in particular was very amusing for me.

hippy a.k.a SnakeFighter

hippy said:

Many of the Europeans I spoke to during my tour think that there is a very high chance of being bitten/eaten/mauled/etc just stepping foot outside an Australian house.

The paranoia about snakes in particular was very amusing for me.

hippy a.k.a SnakeFighter

And I hope you didn't encourage that paranoia?

Steve("...and then there's the taipan...."😉A

I've seen them near chandler hwy as well and it freaked me out for the whole ride until i was home. Infact, it still freaks me out now any time i ride along that path. Bring on the road anytime.

Claude said:

Saw a dead (headless) snake on the bike path yesterday and then today a live
one slithering across the path only 10 metres in front of me. Seemed very
relaxed and I had to go around it to avoid running over the little darling.
This was on the Yarra Trail - yesterday about 400m north of the Chandler
Hwy and today about 200m south of Burke Rd. I'm assuming these are Tiger
snakes because they both had dark grey and light grey stripes. The warning
signs say that snake season starts in October so these guys were pretty
punctual. I've never seen snakes in five years riding along the Yarra so
I'm wondering if some environmental difference (eg the wet winter this
year?) means I'm going to be seeing more of them this summer.

Due to the snakes, I actually avoid that way home in the summer time and head down Kilby Rd instead. I get back onto the Yarra Trail just after the Eastern Fwy underpass.

At least a snake got its comeuppance recently:

"A four-metre python exploded when it tried to swallow a two-metre
alligator whole in Florida."

Full story and awesome pic available here:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/10/06/1128191820927.html?from=top5

Maybe my mum was right...you shouldn't swallow things whole

We have regular family walks and rides on the Yarra trail from the Heidelberg/banyule area to Westerfolds Park. Snakes are regulars. A tiger snake killed a dog in one of the houses that back onto the Yarra trail last summer (in Buckingham Drive). Luckily the snake got the dog and not the toddler he was playing with!

Shall take an extra bag of snakes around the bay this Sunday and avenge the dogs death!!!!

hippy said:

Many of the Europeans I spoke to during my tour think that there is a very high chance of being bitten/eaten/mauled/etc just stepping foot outside an Australian house.

The paranoia about snakes in particular was very amusing for me.

hippy a.k.a SnakeFighter

Sometimes they're right, few months back there was a dead roo between the lodge and parliment house!

SteveA said:

hippy said:

Many of the Europeans I spoke to during my tour think that there is a
very high chance of being bitten/eaten/mauled/etc just stepping foot
outside an Australian house.

The paranoia about snakes in particular was very amusing for me.

hippy a.k.a SnakeFighter

And I hope you didn't encourage that paranoia?

Steve("...and then there's the taipan...."😉A

Just do what I do. Tell em the taipan is a 3 stepper. 🙂

SteveA said:

And I hope you didn't encourage that paranoia?
Steve("...and then there's the taipan...."😉A

Moi? Oh, never!

"and there's also that deadly shellfish-thing that fires poisoned darts at passing swimmers.. and the blue-ringed octopus.. and the drop bears.. and hoop snakes.. and bogans driving V8 utes.. "

hooligan hippy :P

On 2005-10-11, SteveA (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

hippy said:

Many of the Europeans I spoke to during my tour think that there is a
very high chance of being bitten/eaten/mauled/etc just stepping foot
outside an Australian house.

The paranoia about snakes in particular was very amusing for me.

hippy a.k.a SnakeFighter

And I hope you didn't encourage that paranoia?

There's nothing scary about hoop snakes and drop bears.

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TimC said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

The paranoia about snakes in particular was very amusing for me.

And I hope you didn't encourage that paranoia?

There's nothing scary about hoop snakes and drop bears.

You obviously haven't seen one attack!
Camping down the river one Christmas with a few mates and Johnno goes for a [censored] behind a gum tree. A few seconds later we hear the scream and rush over to find a fully-grown, angry male drop bear slashing at Johnno's head..

Yeah, I didn't do ANYTHING to encourage the paranoia :P

hippy

hippy said:

You obviously haven't seen one attack!
Camping down the river one Christmas with a few mates and Johnno goes for a [censored] behind a gum tree. A few seconds later we hear the scream and rush over to find a fully-grown, angry male drop bear slashing at Johnno's head..

Yeah, I didn't do ANYTHING to encourage the paranoia :P

hippy

Quick poll - would you rather have any agry snake, magpie or wife/partner?

The first I will take any time.....

spiz said:

Quick poll - would you rather have any agry snake, magpie or wife/partner?
The first I will take any time.....

I've met a few snakes and not yet had any grief, but just the potential trouble means I'd pick a Maggie every time. They've never done anything to me except peck at my helmet and that's usually only when I don't notice them swooping and thus don't try and whack them away.

hippy