Things that go ‘bump’ in the night
Well after two HUGE hand-sized spiders in the upstairs hallway and guest bedroom we thought we were starting to get used to living on the edge of an Australian National Park.
Not so.
Yesterday, whilst baby and I were in the swimming pool doing pre-natal aqua aerobics, Paul spotted a diamond python that had slithered into our back garden and settled on our patio furniture. I’m glad I wasn’t home, this baby would have come early !!!!
I was greeted by an excited Paul who told me he had a new pet. Sitting in the car, he passed me his camera to flick through some pictures, and my look of intrigue turned to one of horror as I saw evidence of a 2 meter python sitting on MY chair.
I jumped on the phone and called WIRES the wildlife RSPCA people - hoping they’d come and remove it. They said ‘don’t worry about it mate, it’ll just go’. It didn’t, and I did. It was still there at 2am, and 4.30am when I got up in the middle of the night to check on it. And yes, it was still there at 8am when we got up.
Not happy.
So Paul took 2 brooms and a thick plastic recycling box up onto the deck and turned into “snake-man”. Finally, after some minutes of tense negotiation - and it being cautioned off the roof, the constrictor firmly wrapped around one broom and was wrestled into the box.
I am proud to say that I bravely closed the lid on it…. I say bravely, because for those of you who have ever been to a zoo with me - you’ll remember that I don’t even enter the Reptile or Spider houses to view them behind glass!!!
Anway, Paul walked it up to the top of the hill (I drove in the Jeep - well, it was hot for a 6 month pregnant lady to walk up such a steep bank!) and into the National Park. We released it back into the wild and it slithered away.
Paul is going to post Pictures and Video on here so you can see his ‘pet’ Sid-the-vicious.
I’m staying inside today. It better not remember where we live !
YUK.YUK.YUK.