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Waychincup is home to the 1080 weed, the bane of early cattle and sheep farmers. Three of those tiny heart shaped leaves will kill a man, and yet the local fauna are immune to 1080, making it an ideal bait for foxes and cats. Shame about introducing 1080 to eastern states areas where the locals are not so savvy, but still, D.E.C. will work it out one day ...
This place is considered a 'biodiversity hotspot', meaning that more species of flora and fauna are found here per square metre than most places on this planet, excepting perhaps the Amazon and errm, a few other spots.
All the critters who live here are big and well fed. The carpet sharks are like Cessna aeroplanes, the possums are friendly and the bungarras don't give a shit. We met a Dugite on Tuesday, thick as my arm (trufe!), trying to climb a perpendicular stone, only to fail and flop, unhappily, at Aussie's feet.
'Jesus (#%$* standard snake expletives *$%#)!'
The carpet python was friendly. She just lay there, looking at us ...
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Gorgeous place, really beautiful snake. I think in Noongar folklore she is the Marjit - the local 'rep' for the Wagyl. She looks after the waterways so she is special, and protected in wadjela law too. Mmm...doesn't sound like you found the second sealers oven and I agree, why would they put it somewhere so inaccessible anyway.
ReplyDeleteNo we didn't find it.
ReplyDeleteMarjit. Thankyou.
Whenever I go out there, I have an encounter with the Marjit. They are so incredibly docile. One day, one stretched the whole way across the track, slender but for the bandicoot lump in its middle. It just would not move while it digested dinner!
Fair enough too!
ReplyDeletegorgeous pictures, and ahh such an adorable snake <3
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