here's a portion of the run I do the most of all. freeze at 3.30 into the run and look on the road near the yellow sign.
first few days of spring here and this eastern brown snake about 5 foot in length is just out of hibernation.
these buggars are rated as number 2 as the most deadliest in the world and although they have only small fangs -they are extremely aggressive...and I mean aggressive.
they strike more than once and the victim sometime doesn't even realize they have been bitten at all.
the usual procedure here. don't clean the bite area, full compression bandage to the entire limb and keep the patient calm and then ring an ambulance........or second choice it's a measure up and a trip to the cemetery. those are the only choices....lol
they knock over a lot more of us than the great white sharks or a croc!
that one in the video was probable 100 yards from that house and still in the town limits. first I thought it was a garden hose and when I saw it was a brow I was deciding if I'd stop or give the bike some gas.
these browns can lift off the ground at least 3ft so there the chance of being bitten or having the thing wrapped around the bike or worse.
now why do they worry me. twemty years ago while trout fishing a local stream I startled a large brown and it took a strike at me and missed my shoe but left both its fang marks imprinted in soft rubber heal section of the jogger shoes. that made my knees buckle. never went back there again.
biggest one I ever shot was 30 odd years ago while shooting rabbits with a 22.250. use to be my favorite gun and fire roughly 10,000 rounds through it. that snake was 7 foot 10 inches - huge brown
today these reptiles are now protected by law so you are stuffed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=KmpSVgw7Qg0