With Summer fast approaching they are already out & about. We've run into a few recently. No dramas, just leave them alone. To anyone who enjoys being out in the bush, BE AWARE OF SNAKES.
I had a 1 metre tiger take up residence in my yard last week. Wife was doing a fridge clean in the van and spotted him/her skulking about next to the van.
Needless to say, but he/her didn't last much longer.
We live on a winery with a large vineyard, been out walking and have seen a number of the ugly critters. Will take my 7 iron next walk. Nasty creatures they are, how some people can like them and keep them as pets is beyond me.
To each his own I suppose.
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Never waste a fresh one. They cook up well on the BBQ and taste just like Chicken. Many folks could have survived death, lost in the outback by drinking their blood and eating there flesh.
We live on a winery with a large vineyard, been out walking and have seen a number of the ugly critters. Will take my 7 iron next walk. Nasty creatures they are, how some people can like them and keep them as pets is beyond me.
To each his own I suppose.
My little girl is almost 3 meters - still growing - and is really quite stunning.
Hey, I'm a vegetarian myself, however, to me meat is meat and if it's someone's thing I see no difference in eating snake, dog, rat, cat, cow, pig, or even koala.
To anybody that says "the only good snake is a dead one", I say you have a problem. While setting up a Gold Heap Leach operation for Sons of Gwalia Mining back in 1989 in Day Dawn, 7 Kms south of Cue in West Aust, I released maybe 40 to 50 snakes, mostly Dugites. I had to put in 4 large dams with plastic liners. To stop the wind blowing the liners away we put about a foot of water in to hold down the plastic sheet. It was October onwards and the weather was getting hot. The poor snakes smelt the water and when they got onto the plastic they just slid down. Then they would swim around and around but unable to get out. I used to catch them and put them in a Woollies type shopping bag and take them 4 or 5 Ks away, and let them loose in the creeks. It made me feel good, and I am confident that they never hurt anybody. There are a lot of humans that are way, way down below snakes, in the animal chain.
OK that's my waffle for today.
Simmo.
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To anybody that says "the only good snake is a dead one", I say you have a problem. While setting up a Gold Heap Leach operation for Sons of Gwalia Mining back in 1989 in Day Dawn, 7 Kms south of Cue in West Aust, I released maybe 40 to 50 snakes, mostly Dugites. I had to put in 4 large dams with plastic liners. To stop the wind blowing the liners away we put about a foot of water in to hold down the plastic sheet. It was October onwards and the weather was getting hot. The poor snakes smelt the water and when they got onto the plastic they just slid down. Then they would swim around and around but unable to get out. I used to catch them and put them in a Woollies type shopping bag and take them 4 or 5 Ks away, and let them loose in the creeks. It made me feel good, and I am confident that they never hurt anybody. There are a lot of humans that are way, way down below snakes, in the animal chain.
OK that's my waffle for today.
Simmo.
Nice work Simmo, yes I for one have found a small fascination for their colours and marking but truly I do like to look from a distance. Radar.
Plenty of snakes up our way in Humpty Doo, only ever had to do the deed on one (brown snake) that the cook dropped the bin on. Was trapped by his tail and mighty pissed off, so I couldn't catch him to move him to the bush. Most are golden tree snakes or pythons so they won't do you any harm, although we do get a few Browns each year hanging about.
Dont like them in the house much as they give you such a start when you see them but only ever had a couple in doors. They have their place in the big scheme of things & they certainly keep the rodent population down around the chook house. Never been bitten while moving them so they don't bother me too much.
in the bush your in their world so just take care.
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With our Caravan Park being surrounded by Banana Plantations, we see the odd Python which are quite easy to pop back over the fence. I have stepped over them on a couple of occasions and they don't even look at me but just keep mossying along.
Simmo.
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