What question should you never ask an Aussie ?

@cherokeepatti Came close to getting bit 3 times, but them snakes failed to get me.. Got to be aleart down here about such things

@Adstar same here. I’ve had close encounters with a rattlesnake, copperheads and water moccasins. I’ve also pulled weeds in the backyard and smelled a snake, must have been large for the amount of musky dead mouse stink I smelled. And another time under the shed when I was weed-eating around it. Three of my relatives were snake bit , all doing outdoor chores.

@cherokeepatti I have had run in's with two Brown snakes and one red belly black snake.. The first one was when i was about 3/ 4 years old we had a green house out the back we called a fernery.. Me and by older brother ( he was a year older ) spent time out there and this day we had fallen asleep.. Well we woke up and a black snake was close to us.. My brother told me to not move thinking for some reason if we stayed still the snake would not bite us.. Anyway i didn't have any shoes on and the snake came past me and slid over my toes.. I stayed still.. I had no real appreciation of the danger because i was too young for it to register..

Later on when i was about 10 i used to go down to the hunter river to go swimming.. The grass on the river banks was long and so i did not see the big brown snake in the grass and i stepped on it's tale fortunately for me i probably scared it and it broke free from my foot and rapidly slithered away... Usually if you step on a brown snake and if feels trapped it will whip around and bit you.. And this one was a fully grown adult one..

The third encounter was similar to the second one.. I was climbing over a farm fence i had reached the top and was going to jump down the other side.. As i was in the action of doing that my eyes saw a brown snake on the ground i was going to land on.. I could not stop myself from falling because was too far gone but at the last moment i used my foot to push away from the fence post so i could land further out from the fence, just enough to avoid landing on the curled up snake.. I landed ok but the snake feeling the shock wave raised it's head ready to strike.. As i landed i used my momentum to jump away from the snake and fortunately for me the snake did not strike me..

I have had other encounters with snakes but never as close as those 3.. I am fortunate to still be alive i think.. I probably would have died if those brown snakes had bitten me because i was way to far away from my home down at the river.. I would not have made it back home.. The black snake is also deadly for little kids but at lest i was at home and i would have been rushed to hospital and probably would have survived that one..

@Adstar We lived on a farm when I was really young. Had a shallow spring fed creek that was a short walk from the house. We would go down to the creek to play and my aunt would bring us. We’d walk down the farm road and as we approached the most shallow part of the creek my aunt would point to a cluster of water moccasins and tell us they were warning us not to bother them. There were probably a dozen of them in one cluster and all of them would open their mouths at the same time, their mouths were white. We’d carefully avoid getting too close but played about 25 feet away with no problem. They weren’t aggressive but they are definitely venomous.

@cherokeepatti To get to the hunter river i had to walk about half a mile over our farm fields.. interesting you describing the water moccasins,, i will have to look them up on Utube.. In Australia we never seeem to encouter more then one snake at a time.. Do the moccisans always come in a group? And yeah fortunatly for us snakes are usually not agressive here..

@Adstar I don’t know if they always cluster up that way. They liked to stay in the most shallow part of the creek near the dirt road my uncle drove his tractor over to get the field next to it…probably a bit warmer there for them. They were always there when the weather was warm enough.