the hazards of touring

[dellzeqq]

(taken by my friends Graham and Bridget on their round-the-world adventure

 

[Moodyman]

A dead bike due to snake bite?

 

[just jim]

That's quite a specimen.

 

[Dayvo]

That's one BIG snake!

I had a close encounter with some kind of giant reptile (goanna?) in Australia last winter: it slowly strolled across the road just in front of me (from top to tail it was well over half the width of the two-laned road!).

Had it not been scared by a car coming up the hill behind me, I think it would have shown an unhealthy interest in me!

 

[theclaud]

Blimey! Great pic.

 

[dellzeqq]

they bought back some great pictures from the trip, including a splendid shot of a petrol pump in Alaska, surrounded by miles and miles of precisely nothing, and some really extraordinary pictures of the end of the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square.

They're off to Kazakhstan in a few months time.

 

[yello]

That's a real hammock of a saddle!

Thinks: a snake like that would be a darned useful theft deterrent. I mean, would YOU touch that bike?!

 

[heretic]

Ooh, dinner!

 

[numbnuts]

great photo, but I hate snakes

 

[skudupnorth]

That's a real hammock of a saddle!

Thinks: a snake like that would be a darned useful theft deterrent. I mean, would YOU touch that bike?!

Would be a bugger trying to wrap it round your wheels though !

 

[rualexander]

Cool photo!
But which came first, the bike being laid down next to the snake (risky!) or the snake conveniently coming over to check out the already laid out bike? Or was it a dead snake which was handy prop for a cool photo?
Where was it taken, Australia? Is it a King Brown?

 

[Arch]

Blimey! Great pic.

I dunno. That snake could be arranged better, so that the shadows of the wheels fit into the curves of the snake.

You can't get the attention to detail these days....

 

[Ticktockmy]

Big snakes are not the problem, its the little green buggers which which hide in bushes and look same as the twigs which they wrap themselves round, which are a bigger problem

 

[SurlyNomad]

Yeah! think i'd have left the bike and ran too! hate bloody snakes. Cool pic though.

 

[andrew_s]

Cool photo!
But which came first, the bike being laid down next to the snake (risky!) or the snake conveniently coming over to check out the already laid out bike? Or was it a dead snake which was handy prop for a cool photo?
Where was it taken, Australia? Is it a King Brown?

I'd reckon on the dead snake, which means Arch was right.