Snakes!

Yesterday afternoon Dad announced that he had found another carpet snake (he stumbled across a carpet python about a month or so earlier - more about that later). Anyway this snake was apparently pretty small and was asleep in the outside toilet, which is now used as Mum's garden shed. Yes, we have an outside toilet (and an inside one too), but it's not used anymore. So back to the snake. Dad took me to have a look at it, and I was expecting to see a snake curled up on the ground, but this is no ordinary snake. This clever little snake was sleep upside-down hanging off the garden tools.

Toward the end of November Dad discovered a carpet python (looks exactly the same as the one above, just a bigger, fatter, longer version). Although this carpet python was definitely not asleep. It was making a dash across the chook yard, through Mum's vegie garden and the orchard before making it's way through yet another fence and into the scrub. Along the way the carpet python, almost came close to almost death when it nearly stuck its head through the bird netting which was protecting the strawberries. It also dashed through the beetroot and potato patch, before quickly negotiating the grape vine and making its final getaway.