Half a Year and Dayboro Show

Today marks exactly half a year of travelling for me. Time really does fly (mostly, though not on the kumara farm)!

With beautiful weather and some tangible warmth in the air (it’s been pretty cold the past few weeks!), Ben, Celeste, and I set off for the Dayboro Show. It’s a kind of agricultural fair featuring entertainment and local competitions in categories like baking, honey, best fruit, photography, etc. There were also plenty of animals.

Apart from farm animals like cows, chickens, alpacas, goats, and sheep, there were also a few snakes — including a snake show presented by (what a coincidence!) a German, reptile-loving James May lookalike. He introduced the crowd to about nine snakes in total: red-bellied black snake, tiger snake, king brown, eastern brown, and taipan among them.

The three deadliest, by the way, are:
3. Coastal taipan
2. Eastern brown snake
1. Inland taipan

Most people in Australia who die from a snake bite are killed by the brown snake (responsible for about 66% of fatalities between 2000 and 2016). That’s quite a number — but let’s take a look at another, more illuminating one: about 2 people in Australia die from a snake bite annually. So… in comparison, about 1 to 2 people die from a dog bite every year. 🐍🐶

My favourite part of the show would have been the petting zoo… if it hadn’t been full of children. I also had my first gin tasting today. Those two events are not connected.

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