The weather here has been rather ordinary over the past few days, so yesterday afternoon, when it had stopped drizzling and warmed up a bit, Cal (our current HelpXer from France) and I went for a walk in our neighbour, Bill's property. It turned out to be good weather for snakes and we saw two, that's right, two, green tree snakes, quietly sunning themselves amongst a rocky slope.
It was easy to catch one of them and Cal, who happens to be interested in reptiles and birds had a nurse of one of them before putting it back to resume its sunbathing activities.
As we walked further up towards the Billen Cliffs, we passed through an area of rainforest in which lots of bird's nest and staghorn ferns were growing on the rock faces and up in the trees. Cal thought these were pretty spectacular.
During the walk we could see our friends' Anton and Abby's place, which is in the Billen Cliffs community. I taught Anton way back in the early 90s in Newcastle. He now works for Lismore City Council.
After walking through rainforest we came up to a cliff line with eucalypts and other drier vegetation. Fantastic habitat for geckos and just a really nice walk to do. I wish, though, that we had some of this stuff on our land, but it's at least only a 20 minute walk to get here from our place.
The weather here has been rather ordinary over the past few days, so yesterday afternoon, when it had stopped drizzling and warmed up a bit, Cal (our current HelpXer from France) and I went for a walk in our neighbour, Bill's property. It turned out to be good weather for snakes and we saw two, that's right, two, green tree snakes, quietly sunning themselves amongst a rocky slope.
It was easy to catch one of them and Cal, who happens to be interested in reptiles and birds had a nurse of one of them before putting it back to resume its sunbathing activities.
As we walked further up towards the Billen Cliffs, we passed through an area of rainforest in which lots of bird's nest and staghorn ferns were growing on the rock faces and up in the trees. Cal thought these were pretty spectacular.
During the walk we could see our friends' Anton and Abby's place, which is in the Billen Cliffs community. I taught Anton way back in the early 90s in Newcastle. He now works for Lismore City Council.
After walking through rainforest we came up to a cliff line with eucalypts and other drier vegetation. Fantastic habitat for geckos and just a really nice walk to do. I wish, though, that we had some of this stuff on our land, but it's at least only a 20 minute walk to get here from our place.
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I'm always astonished at how many snakes you see! Whilst I would love to go for a walk with you up there some day, I think I'd be rather worried about slithery friends.
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