Kiwi, I'm very glad you didn't stand on it. There would be a lot of snakes there. Same here especially up in the Hinterland when it's really hot in summer. I've seen a lot but never a red bellied black. It's the brown snakes that worry me the most and they're very difficult to see. When I was very young I had a snake bite kit can you believe it. Would be museum piece these days.
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It didn't even contain a bandage. When I think about that now it was the most dangerous thing possible because it would have just spread the poison.