Tuesday 14th July 2015
Last night it was
all VERY Attenborough on 2XS…
Pete woke at 3am
to hear tinkling glass in the galley.
Hmmm…someone must have broken in… But if that were the case, why didn’t
our trusty alarm (thank you John Miedecke) go off??
Pete came and woke
me up from a very deep slumber. “You
have to come and see this,” he said, and noting my appalled expression, “NO it
is not a spider!” Oh OK, NOT a spider – all is well!
We stayed with our
visitor for an hour so, wondering what to do.
This might sound a bit pathetic but…we are Tasmanians, and while we both
know what to do with a tiger snake or a copperhead, we are just not familiar with
pythons.
So what do you do
when faced with The Unknown?? Why…you
Google it, of course!
So while our
naughty python, 3-4 metres in length, slithered across the table, threatening to upend my computer, I
read out to Pete the instructions. Don’t grab around its head; it won’t like
that. Pick it up in the middle; it won’t
mind that at all. So…with a lot of
help from Google, and from me, because as Pete gently lifted our friend out of
the cabin, it wound its tail tightly around the director’s chair and had to be
prised off…
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| He is there, right behind the computer... |
And then, with a
resounding splash, off it went…We sat up with cups of soothing tea until our
adrenalin had gone down…
This morning we
are leaving our lovely favorite Friwin anchorage – off to the Kabui Passage to
fill our tanks with waterfall water, and to do a vast mound of washing. No internet there,…and probably no pythons!
Blimey!!!
ReplyDeleteThe kids were in awe at this story. Leo thought it was particularly funny that you and Pete felt perfectly confident to handle a tiger snake under these circumstances...
I LOVE this post! Every single word! Can't wait to tell/show felix and jemima! X
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