Category: nature and travel

This post’s featured image was taken five minutes after the immediately-previous chapter’s.

As you can see, the bobtail was still abiding by an instruction famously issued by the most celebrated 20th century Welsh poet: Do not go gentle into that good night

The Dugite is a highly venomous brown snake.

Pseudonaja affinis does very well in 21st century Perth, where house mice (“kindly”/accidentally introduced by European colonists) have become the species’ preferred prey.

Dugites, however do still target “traditional” prey: lizards, rodents and other snakes, including fellow dugites.

On 20 September 2025 a close encounter of the “dugite v bobtail” kind provided the most dramatic experience of our 42 years as frequent visitors to Kings Park.

We were in “wildflower” mode, and had not expected a “safari” experience!

Photographic Exhibit “A” was taken at 11.31 am on 21 September 2025.

We were on a walking trail within the bushland section of one of the world’s greatest urban parks.

Had we wished to walk from the Kings Park “murder scene” to the very centre of Perth’s CBD, it would not have taken us more than 30 minutes.