| The Eucalyptus
trees shed long light pieces of their bark. One time when I was pushing my
bike up a long red dirt hill, I heard--what I thought was--the rattle of a
snake. So I started sprinting up this hill with my bike in tow, and
the noise followed me. Finally I turn around to give up & realize it's
just a piece of bark caught in the spokes. OK I admit I overreacted, but I
grew up in the Colorado Mountains, where you run away from the snake &
ask questions later. On a subsequent trip we did see a Tiger Snake, only
one of the most deadly snakes in the world, and I was down the road before
Erik could say, "Was that a snake." (of course he's from Sweden
where they don't have snakes so my hyper reaction verses his under reaction
served us pretty well. |
