Come to Australia... You Might Accidentally Die!

            So as I have been here in Australia I have seen my fare share of critters... Many in my own home, and surprisingly none when I went out camping... but plenty if I dare venture into my own backyard after the sun goes down.  Once as I sat in my mother-in-law's backyard talking I suddenly saw a huge creature of some kind run along the length of their fence... about the size of a cat... but most definitly NOT a cat... Yeah.  To this day I have no idea what that was.  This I realise is a common thing for my australian family and friends.  It certainly isn't middle america, and just when you begin to get comfortable and think... "hmm... this really isn't so different" you see a large tropical bird perched on a tree in your backyard, a big lizard climing up the side of your house...or you pick up your husband from work and hear the following story:
            Yesterday when I had picked up Mick from work he proceeded to tell me about how during the day when his schedule was free he had decided to go and clean off his desk.  Apparently it had become horribly cluttered over the past six months and was quite full of all sorts of things.  He had been working at it for a while and was finally clearing off the back layer of items when to his surprise he was greeted by a huge snake!  It ofcourse scared him pretty bad.  He went to get the school grounds keeper, who apparently is also a bit of a "snake-rangler".... something that I assume is a requirment for any "grounds keepers" in Australia... hahahah...  Anyway, long story short, they had to call in an expert to remove the snake as the grounds man was not able to identify it.  In the end it turns out that it was a brown-tree python.

A picture of the kind of snake that was on his desk... fun fun fun.