October 25, 2004
Nothing worse
...than seeing a snake. Especially when you are living in Tasmania, where every snake has the potential for death. All snakes in Tassie have powerful neurotoxins in their venom. So when you go on a bushwalk and see a tiger snake, that’s the main thing you remember about the walk. All I can see in my mind when I think of Waterfall bay is the black tiger snake only one short meter ahead. We don’t have any pictures of it because I was too busy running the other way. By the way, did I mention that we saw two snakes on that walk?
Rob is much more sensible about the snakes than I am. Both of us know that the snakes will not harm us if we leave them alone, that they are more afraid of us, that they will move off the path when they hear us coming. The difference is in the emotional reaction to the snake. Rob keeps his cool and remembers these things. I shriek and run the other way, make Rob walk in front of me when we’re on the path, etc. I have such a deep dislike for seeing them that I wouldn’t post a photo of a snake on the blog even if I had one. Just looking up that link was bad enough.
The funny thing about all of this is that my sign in the Chinese Zodiac is the snake, as I was born in 1977. Maybe I am afraid of my true nature. Here’s a photo of me at the Chinese Botanical Garden in Sydney, along with my snake counterpart in stone.
Posted by at 07:35 am
Well, I’m glad you weren’t both bitten anyway — that’s all we need: another couple of crazy Americans bushwalking around half-delirious.
By the way, their showing Australia’s recent storm all over the news this morning. I hope you guys are ok!
timsamoff () (URL) - October 25, 2004 at 08:12 am
I sent you both an e-mail announcing Kelsey Lynn Snowden. I’ve had fun reading through your web-page.Jason
Jason Snowden () - October 26, 2004 at 7:04 pm
