Snakes And Modems

Whilst we were staying in Denham, Luke (accidentally!) put his knee on our internet modem (which is a little sticky-outty thingy which connects into the side of our laptop. The thing pretty much snapped in half. This posed quite the problem considering Luke uses the net each day for work, and I need it too for important things like keeping you updated on our blog and replying to friends on Facebook.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, we found a business card for a technical repair man in this very small town with a population of 1000 and thought we'd give him a go instead of forking out another $500 for a new Telstra modem (the fact that we wouldn't see a Telstra shop for another 3000km is beside the point). We rang the guy and he said to come over to his house and he'd have a look out our broken modem.

I waited in the car while Luke explained the sito and the next thing you know, the computer guy comes strolling out of his place with an endangered Woma Python around his neck. He and his wife do some wildlife regeneration work so were keeping the snake at home after they found it badly attacked by an eagle. Yikes!!! Snakes give me the creeps but this slithery fellow was surprisingly soft and silky and very placid. I asked if I could get a photo and the computer dude grabbed the thing off his shoulder and started putting it around Luke's neck, much to Luke's shock (note the smiling/ terrified expression below)!

It's not everyday that your computer guy gives you an education rundown on endangered snakes but we are in Denham, W.A and things happen a little differently around here. After the guy fiddled with our modem for about three hours (and we became more skeptical that he had no idea what he was doing), it was fixed and worked even better than before! But jeepas, three hours work at what we thought would be around $70 an hour was going to be expensive... Um, no... Guess what the guy charged us? $25. Bargain.

Yours in the great outdoors,

Odette