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Fri05182012

Last update11:29:43 PM

No, not this time of the year again, A School Visit, Fukuoka

Well the last couple of weeks the weather has definitely started to warm up on the Gold Coast, which unfortunately brings out the wildlife that you don’t like to see while you are training hard in some of your favourite training venues.


Over the last couple of weeks I have seen two brown snakes luckily we both went the directions we both wanted to without incident and most recently walking to the mail box I came across a green tree snake sliding along the railing about 30 cm’s away from my head. Needless to say my heart started to beat a little faster. He looked very suspicious so maybe he was going through my mail. Thankfully he was just as surprised as I was and slid away. I just got a picture of him so if anyone knows his name let me know as I want to report him.

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