Snakes

Speak of the devil, just after putting the snake safety post we came across our first snakes of the season. Not on the bike, we'd ventured down to one of our favorite swimming holes for a picnic. Been visiting this spot of more than 25 years and took the camera to do a bit of lizard spotting as there are lots of Cunningham Skinks and Water Dragons but I've never seen as snake here before.

Being the middle of the day I didn't think we'd have much chance at the lizards but they were plentiful and then Thing 2 calls up that ones popped it head up over near where we'd been lounging in the sun just moments before.

"It looked like it might of been a big one," he said as he stealthily approached, "Um dad, I think it's a snake."

Nice sized Eastern Brown (I think still haven't got a 100% ID yet) pops up and poses for us on it's way up to find some shade.

The another family comes down with a dog. We warn them of the snake and the steer the dog down stream only to see another, a little bigger sliding into the water.

Then on the drive home we spot is poor old Red belly that had been run over on the side of the road...