Uninvited Guest

This morning when Diva was out for a surf and Kate and I were lazily having breakfast downstairs, Kate noticed that we had an uninvited guest on our back deck... after taking a few pictures and videos and then a brief moment of hysteria and intentions of calling animal control to remove our visitor we came to our senses, hopped on the internet and learned that he or she was a Coastal Carpet Python, indigenous to these parts of Australia, and pretty much harmless unless you are a rodent or small pet.



I thought it would be okay if we touched it, like just the tail, and told Kate this and then proceed to lightly touch its tail end only to have its head jerk up and me to scream bloody murder and then both us sprint into the house. After that it continued its journey from one end of the deck to the other and then went through a small hole in the fence into the neighbors yard or under their deck. Kate went over and told them that the python had entered their property and that it was not poisonous. The neighbor said they had rats in their backyard, so maybe the snake will eat the rats? Interesting morning to say the least.

It's another beautiful day here in Byron Shire after a wicked thunder and lightning storm last night that we witnessed from the Beachie. The light show was incredible, some of it looked like fireworks, and we watched the black storm cloud engulf us from across the bay. It was really quite something. Once the storm had settled down we found a table and waited for the band to start. There was a guy and some girls at the table next to ours. It looked like the guy had bought these girls beers as a means to pick them up. The girls were not impressed, left the half-full beers on the table and then walked off. The guy stood there looking confused for a while and then put his beer down and walked away too. Then some other people came over and took his table and then one of the bouncers came over to take away the beers but we told him not to as we thought this guy might come back. We moved the beers over to our table and then he came back and we explained what happened/why his beers had been moved. He looked kinda pissed and I sort of thought he might want to fight the guy who was sitting at what used to be his table. He just took one of the beers and walked off again though. After a few more minutes we poured all his abandoned beer into our cups and then hid the empty cups under the table. He returned a bit later, but was looking for his friend, not his beers. So free beer for us! hahaha