We saw our first outback snake today…it looked like a Taipan.  It was a smallish snake with a yellow body and a black head.   It was right under the quad bike as Renarda was putting 2 of our youngest kids on the back of it to take them for a ride.  The snake slithered away in a hole under the old meat house in the shearing quarters.  As everyone was trying to decide how to catch the snake,  Ponove (the Tongan shearer) discovered a scorpion…hmmm what next?

After seeing these creatures my first thoughts were to look up on the internet to get information about them…but with no internet you’re left feeling a bit clueless.

We never caught the snake but just filled up the hole hoping we wouldn’t come across it again!

This is the scorpion on it’s side…I wasn’t going to flip it back over!