What's the frequency Kenneth?
Sep. 12th, 2005 07:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gemfyreI just had a nice shower, I'm onto the lavender soap. I returned to my room, opened the door and noticed movement on my bed. I shone my torch on it and was greeted with this.
Looks comfy doesn't he?
It's photos like this that make me suddenly learn how to upload, if only I'd bothered earlier, not that I have the time much anyway, but I digress.
That fellow snuggled on my bed is Kenneth. He is a King Brown snake. According to a book we sell the King Brown has "the highest venom yield of any snake in the world". Now I've encountered Kenneth many times while I've been living here, I've even dined in the same room as him but I will not sleep with him I'm sorry. He's a beautiful snake but I draw the line at slumbering with one of the most deadly critters in the world (by the way, no-one has died from a King Brown bite since the 1970's, the antivenene is very successful). Lucky Ricki has some vague snake handling ability and a lot of gung-ho so using a broom to hold his head down she grabbed his tail and pulled him out. He did have to tangle himself in a set of binoculars. 1. We didn't want the bins hitting the floor because it's not good for them and 2. as Kenneth fell off the bed the heavy bins fell on top of him, which must have hurt! He also decided he'd latch around my backpack and try to drag that with him too.
Eventually however he came out of the room, I was standing on a chair manning the torch. Stu had clambered onto the roof and was dangling over camera in hand and Chris was getting dangerously close and taking photos. He wanted to settle in amongt the shoes but eventually he made his away off the verandah and back into the bush.
And if that didn't freak you out. My door had been closed while I was having a shower. Before then I'd been sitting in my room on the laptop. Which means he was IN my room while I was there and didn't notice him. Little bugger.
Looks comfy doesn't he?
It's photos like this that make me suddenly learn how to upload, if only I'd bothered earlier, not that I have the time much anyway, but I digress.
That fellow snuggled on my bed is Kenneth. He is a King Brown snake. According to a book we sell the King Brown has "the highest venom yield of any snake in the world". Now I've encountered Kenneth many times while I've been living here, I've even dined in the same room as him but I will not sleep with him I'm sorry. He's a beautiful snake but I draw the line at slumbering with one of the most deadly critters in the world (by the way, no-one has died from a King Brown bite since the 1970's, the antivenene is very successful). Lucky Ricki has some vague snake handling ability and a lot of gung-ho so using a broom to hold his head down she grabbed his tail and pulled him out. He did have to tangle himself in a set of binoculars. 1. We didn't want the bins hitting the floor because it's not good for them and 2. as Kenneth fell off the bed the heavy bins fell on top of him, which must have hurt! He also decided he'd latch around my backpack and try to drag that with him too.
Eventually however he came out of the room, I was standing on a chair manning the torch. Stu had clambered onto the roof and was dangling over camera in hand and Chris was getting dangerously close and taking photos. He wanted to settle in amongt the shoes but eventually he made his away off the verandah and back into the bush.
And if that didn't freak you out. My door had been closed while I was having a shower. Before then I'd been sitting in my room on the laptop. Which means he was IN my room while I was there and didn't notice him. Little bugger.
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Date: 2005-09-12 12:23 pm (UTC)I've been living with Kenneth for 7 months now and I'm almost blase about him. I know he's not going to go out of his way to hurt me, so long as I don't tread on him he'll go about his buisness and I can go about mine.
OMG!!!! :D
Date: 2005-09-12 11:45 am (UTC)You're a brave soul - thejmz@gmail.com
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Date: 2005-09-12 12:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-12 11:48 am (UTC)Me, worst I am getting in this place is moths, mice and cats (the former two usually related to the last - my own). The spiders don't bug me.
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Date: 2005-09-12 01:04 pm (UTC)It figures that he managed to wrap around your binoculars. Naughty Kenneth.
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Date: 2005-09-12 01:28 pm (UTC)We've had a BIG king brown near the bird baths that was over 2m long. And they pale in comparison to things like Black Headed and Olive pythons.
Then of course there's Reticulated Pythons and Anacondas, the giants of the snake world.
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Date: 2005-09-12 01:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-12 01:33 pm (UTC)It sounds like he was so comfortable that he didn't want to leave your bed Lol.
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Date: 2005-09-12 10:47 pm (UTC)My hometown Perth has tiger snakes around most lakes.
At least I know Kenneth and his moods now.
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Date: 2005-09-12 07:39 pm (UTC)Sexy thing... but freaky! What a story!
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Date: 2005-09-12 08:22 pm (UTC)You're a braver woman than I am, I would've curled up and died right there and the floor.
-§parky
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Date: 2005-09-12 11:15 pm (UTC)Perhaps you shuold a)look into snake handling courses (I hear they're lots of fun) and b) have a more.. contrasty bedspread.
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Date: 2005-09-13 03:36 am (UTC)SERIOUSLY... I WANT A SNAKE SOOO BAD!! AND HE IS BEEEYOOTIFUL!!!
I am obsessed. I have dreams about snakes.
You lucky thing. =)
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Date: 2005-09-13 04:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-13 07:44 am (UTC)I did however duck into a spare room and get back into my dirty clothes so I could run fast if needed.
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Date: 2005-09-13 08:06 am (UTC)How do you know...
Date: 2005-09-13 07:41 am (UTC)Re: How do you know...
Date: 2005-09-13 07:54 am (UTC)The king brown has the highest venom yield apparently. I'm not sure which snake has the most lethal venom, I think it's the inland Taipan. However the inland Taipan is not the "most dangerous" due to it having little contact with humans.
Measuring the deadliness of a snake isn't much of an accurate science.
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Date: 2005-09-13 06:53 pm (UTC)"Now I've encountered Kenneth many times while I've been living here, I've even dined in the same room as him but I will not sleep with him I'm sorry" Haha that one cracked me up! I'm glad you're okay though and that you got the snake out! :D
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Date: 2005-09-13 07:30 pm (UTC)I dont think there are any reptiles or amphibans living in alaska, at lest not in this part - too freakin COLD here...
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Date: 2005-09-14 01:13 am (UTC)I have 3 snakes myself, luckily none are poisonous though =)
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Date: 2005-09-15 05:28 am (UTC)http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/fencesnake.asp
your so brave BJ!!!
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Date: 2005-09-15 06:36 am (UTC)Poor python.
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Date: 2005-09-24 11:48 am (UTC)see the reply i left to this post
the same applies to you now!
*whimpers*
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Date: 2005-09-24 11:47 am (UTC)i reallly REALLY cant stand snakes or reptiles they make me squirm!!!!!
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Date: 2008-01-05 11:42 pm (UTC)If he could have given a guarantee that he wouldn't bite I would have let him stay.