It's been a long time since I was face to face with not one but two snakes simultaneously (and you lot can get your minds out of the gutter right now!). Happy to report I broke my double-snake drought while we were down the coast.
There's loads of dog friendly places down at Bermagui. Beautiful beaches, cafes, pubs; there weren't many places that our lovely doggo Mabel wasn't welcome. BUT the famous Blue Pool is one of those places so Matt and I planned to tag-team so that one of us was on dog-duty at the top of the stairs, which is totally fine as it has the perfect view of a pod of local seals, while the other explored the pool itself.
Now because my husband is the best human ever, he had only gone down a few steps before he excitedly called me over, grabbed Mabel and pushed me down the stairs (one of those gentle, off you pop, pushes) so that I could see the gorgeous Diamond Python that was coming out of the grass and making its way across the stairs.
We get occasional pythons here but it's been a while and so I was a very happy girl. But things got even better when a random bloke pointed behind me, giving me a quick nod and a wink and I turned to find a second python about to also slither down onto the stairs!
These two moved back and forth over the next hour. One snake would disappear into the long grass and if you hadn't seen it you would never have known it was there and just as you were turning to leave, the other would turn up somewhere else and suck you back in.
It was really cool watching everyone discover them and it reminded me how lucky we are to be surrounded with such incredible wildlife.
We finally returned to the car to scoff the amazing cinnamon rolls that we discovered in town, and left the snakes to what I can only assume was some hard earned hanky panky.
Diamond Pythons
Bermagui
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