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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller
Very sad news. Here's hoping for a speedy recovery.
Dead Adders are one snake I don't like. Most snakes will tend to run .... ah slither away but adders have the reputation of staying. It's the only snake with which I've had a close call. I didn't realise that you may not feel the bite.
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Hi David,
Thanks for everyone's well wishes and I know Lach would appreciate it.
He certainly is a very generous individual with his time on the observing field.
I know what you mean about them not slithering away in a hurry.
About two years back on an afternoon walk here in the neighbouring
Kuring-Gai Chase National Park I had one of those "whoa there!" moments
when I encountered one laying on the track a few steps in front of me.
The first momentary thought that goes through the brain is that it is
just a big chubby skink like a Blue Tongue. He took his time to move away.
I've been told that apparently they like to get in under Grass Trees (Xanthorrhoea).
A few years back the Hornsby Advocate ran a story, which I recollect was
about a golfer who had hit a ball into the rough at the local Asquith Golf Course.
He thought he must have trodden on a stick that whacked him on the side
of the leg and apparently didn't think too much about it. It was only later
after the round whilst in the shower he saw the puncture marks and began
to feel unwell and if my memory is correct I believe it was reported to have
been as a result of a Death Adder strike.