Mariana and I went hiking with another couple from work on Saturday. Rej and Clo were nice enough to invite us out for the day and we headed up to Mt. Glorious for a trek.
The weather was great and the hike was scenic and a good time but not without some drama...
Rej and I were talking away with the girls walking up ahead of us when we heard a scream. I looked up to see Mariana hopping really fast for a few feet and looking kind of scared behind a tree.
When we got to the scene there was a medium sized snake sitting in the middle of the trail looking kind of mad. Mariana had been walking along talking and mistakenly almost stepped on this guy and he slithered accross her boot and stood his ground.
Fearlessly I took out my camera and used as much zoom as was available to me and got a picture of him before he slithered quickly off the trail.
After some reaserch the concensus is that he was a King Brown Snake and quite venomous.
Mariana was not to be detered. She made the rest of the hike and liked it enough that we went to Anaconda the next day and got outfitted out with some really cool hiking gear.
We are in Australia and might as well make the most of it. There are quite a few hikers and campers at Pandemic and we are hoping to get invited out again soon.
