Snake bites.

Snakes have a fairly broad assessment of what is a threat.
I slowed down to look at one on the road recently and from 3 metres away it looked like it was getting ready to stike.

My dog likes to get up close and personal to goannas and bark,if it was a snake she would get bitten for sure

thats easy a dog goes straight in with the teeth and isnt deterred by feighning or bunting or dry strikes like a human - same goes with cats

insnake handling courses the snake usually starts withmock strikes and bluff but after you keepstirring it up they full strike leaving venom on the bag

I'll 2nd the theory with brown snakes avoiding humans.
About this time last year I was riding my trailbike up Toolangi and following my mate we came across a large tree fallen across the track. I stopped and put my foot down watching my mate try and get around it, then I saw something move and sure enough it was a good sized brown right next to my left boot.
It just slithered away!
It scared the you know what out of me!
For the rest of the day every fallen stick on the track seemed like a snake to me. However on the way back to the cars crossing a single lane wooden bridge was a tiger snake that got a fright and jumped off the edge into the creek!

Kroozer,
A lot of people actually have a reaction to the anti venom itself, so a casualtys condition is monitored and the anti venom is only used if their condition deteriorates to a certain level.

Cheers
Dave

Kroozer
My mates daughter was biten by a tiger snake 3 strikes, taken to hosoital and no anti vermon was given she was just monitored. One strike did contain venom as she now has permanent sight deterioration muscle problems and joint prodlems all long term side affects from the bite.All this happened about 5 years ago and she has just got her car licence back with special conditions. Apparently she would still have these problems even if she was given anti venom but maybe not quite as bad
cheers Murray

that includes the dugite, gwardar, and tiger
they will use their venom and is unusual for them not to i too am a snake buster in my spare time around perth

Robertbruce,
The use of a tourniquet has been actively discouraged for many years now. You should be carrying a compression bandage.
Gary.

Sorry folks, but spending 3-4 months of the year in W.Qld. I find the 12g. works the best.
For whatever reason we always seem end up with a decent size Mulga somewhere about the camp.
We keep our garbage down to a minimum, (no mice etc.) have a dog (which we treasure, she is our "early warning" system) but always seem to end up with one around.
But what is interesting to us is that 15yrs. ago there were snakes of many varieties about. Because we dig holes in the ground we often found remains of the fierce snake (inland taipan?) and (immature?) browns hit by the excavator.
However, (the interesting part) is that we now very seldom see snakes at all (except the one which wants to adopt our camp!) and I believe this is very much to do with available food and a certain predator.
We have also noticed less and less bird life, and it is probably easily guessed that the proliferation of ferel cats is all to do with this. Even the W. Bower bird has taken to mimicking cat calls! And these same ferel cats I believe are also the predator killing immature snakes.
Once, in the early morning before the breeze got up you could see all the footprints of the tiny nocturnal creatures in the yesterdays dust. Now all you see are cat paw marks.
And the 12g. comes in very useful there too.
And no, I certainly would not kill or harm any snake without reason.
furph

furph wrote :

"Sorry folks, but spending 3-4 months of the year in W.Qld. I find the 12g. works the best"

and then

"However, (the interesting part) is that we now very seldom see snakes at all"

Im not sure its the cats that are the danger to wildlife when you hit the bush

sorry that should be

Nice shot Davoe, hope that was with a tele-photo lens.

If not, your a crazy bugger.

Ever tried driving while looking through binoculars.......unsettling to say the least.



Cheers.....Lionel.

Thats close enough for ME!!!!

It's nearly as bad as this one.



Richard

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I bet that is the King Brown aka Mulga snake at the Desert Park wildlife Park at Alice Springs.

Travelin OZ

Your oly 1/2 right

Its a Mulga I came accross it in the Francis peron NP Shark Bay in the middle of the road. i jumped out for a few snaps before it took off

Good breeding ground for them up there!

thats pretty much like a gator which are worn to walk through spinifex.

fear not however I had a job where upto 8 people would be walking through spinifex in the pilbarra all day either mappng or soil sampling. The occasional Death adder was spotted no one had any issues. The problem youhave is getting them to sit still long enouh for a photo. Snakesare very elusive on there home turf and have gone before you knew they were there