The spiders and scorpions in Australia are much more dangerous than our
snakes. Darwin, Australia has one of the most beautiful beaches in the
world. We finished up what we were doing for the day and hit a local
pub. We had been there for two days and the beach was vacant. I noticed
a sign that warned about going on the beach in the month of ( I think
it was ) Jan. I asked why in the pub. Seems there is a sand scorpion
that comes to the beach to breed that time of the year. They borrow
under the sand so you can't see them. If you step on one (which would
be highly likely) you will be dead.
It, however, is an amazingly beautiful country. Some people that go
there never want to return.
In Gaum one time I went scuba diving with a guide. He grabbed my arm as
I was going around a rock. This huge sea snake came up from behind the
rock looked at us and swam off. He told me later that that sea snake
would have done me in.
Then there was the time in India. We were late getting out of the site
were we were installing equipment. It was at a military airstrip. The
host sent out some locals to clear off the tramac before we walked to
our cars. I asked why. He said - "see that (what looked like) a raised
area in the pavement." I said yes. He said that is a cobra. They were
all over the place.
The there was the "two stepper" in Vietnam. The Viet Cong used to booby
trap areas with them. They lived in trees and they would catch them and
hang them about head level on jungle trails where our guys were going.
Thank you very much I'll take our rattle snakes.
Truman
Barbara McCrary wrote:
One of our daughters
traveled
to Australia many years ago and when she returned she told us that
absolutely every snake there is poisonous. I asked her how parents
teach their children to avoid snakes and she said they tell the
children, "Bitey, bitey!" I suppose it's like telling small children
that something is "Hot!!!" I don't think I'd like to live where I was
always on the watch for a poisonous snake, but I suppose you get used
to it. I've had all the introduction to the damage a rattlesnake can
do to a horse's leg, thank you. We have a gelding that lost three good
years of endurance riding before he healed the wound and came sound.
His hoof is distorted and he has a huge ugly bump on his pastern. And
he was standing in a paddock about 150 feet from our daughter's house
when he was bitten. The snake was never found anywhere nearby.
Barbara\
-- We imitate our masters only because we are not yet masters
ourselves,
and only
We
imitate our masters
only because we are not yet masters ourselves, and only
because
in doing so we
learn the truth about what cannot be imitated.
-- We imitate our masters only because we are not yet masters
ourselves,
and only
We
imitate our masters
only because we are not yet masters ourselves, and only
because
in doing so we
learn the truth about what cannot be imitated.
