Snake hunt
Do not get anywhere near a snake - it will be poisonous. That is what our Lonely Planet book said about Australian deserts. It was difficult enough to find a snake, you could walk for hours and die of dehydration before getting anywhere near a snake.
You can therefore imagine our great enthusiasm when we finally came to see a real life, mightily pissed off brown snake of unknown type. We were driving through the middle of nowhere, and by pure chance met another couple who had stopped their car right in that middle of nowhere. Because they had seen the snake first. Now imagine 4 grown ups chasing a brown snake - just to take a picture! I got as close as 1-2 meters, when the snake suddenly stopped and thought about giving me a chase instead. I therefore also stopped and reversed back to the car.
It was impressively idiotic in retrospect, but it made sense at the time.
( RedWine President of the S.C.U.M., Fri 13 Feb 2009, 16:54, 1 reply)

*click*
Especially for the mental image I now have of four people chasing a snake while the Benny Hill theme tune plays...
( Maladicta, Sat 14 Feb 2009, 15:12, closed)