The reptile is one of two tiger snakes encountered within five minutes of each other, whilst my beloved and I were walking up Mount Oberon, on Wilson’s Promontory, four days ago.
The male blue wren was at war with a vision of himself – variously, on the outside light, the bathroom window and the bedroom windows – every morning, where we stayed for four nights, just outside the entrance to the Prom. (a good choice, too, detailed here)
(both photos are copyright Doug Spencer)
For the last few weeks we have been “off grid” in rural Victoria.
Normal Pelican Yoga service should resume next week; near-future posts will feature Victoria’s “roof”, Australia’s biggest river redgum forest (or, as the tourist brochures prefer to say, “the world’s biggest”), Wilson’s Prom, the Otways…and more of Madagascar’s human and animal life.
Hi Doug, I am not sure I succeeded in sending you my last intended comment. That said, I’m about to try again. Strange that you and your “beloved” should be in a few minutes drive of me and mine a couple of days ago. While you were staying in a cottage on the edge of the Prom park, we were camped at Shallow Inlet, just south of Yanakie. Before that we’d been camping beside the Tarra River up closer to Tarra-Bulga National Park. Nice shot of the serene tiger snake. We encountered three moderately sized black snakes, one a yellow belly was not so serene and took some firm and persistent encouragement with a long branch to move off the track we were walking on. I was so focussed on clearing our path that I didn’t think of pulling the phone out of my pocket and snapping a photo. Other wildlife we saw and didn’t photograph included three lyrebirds (2 confirmed males) which crossed our paths and disappeared into the cover of the bush and a couple of endearing echidnas as they rolled along in search other adventures.