Day 339 | 18 km from Lark Quarry: almost Dinosaurland
81 km | zzOz total: 8957 km
They say that 90% of those bitten by venomous snakes have a Y chromosome.
Today I saw a King Brown, not well named apparently as they are technically classified as highly venomous black snakes, but the big part is accurate, as thick as my arm and about 2 m long. Real big.
It looked as if it had been run over by a truck, in the truck tracks anyway, and I thought I might take a closer look, at which point it became animated and slithered off into the longer grass.
Another sighting for the day was a pair of Royal Spoonbills.
Crossed the Diamantina River, you can sense it can get huge, on which occasions it flows 800 km, past Birdsville in the south west corner of the state before it starts calling itself the Warburton River and become the major contribution of water that makes its way to Lake Eyre. Basically a major river that flows, err, nowhere.
There’s major waterholes for each of the channels, 5 km apart, water no doubt would stretch between at great depth and ferocity.
No obvious campsites due to the steep banks and muddy conditions but maybe there was something about seeing that monster snake that kept me pedalling on so far today, ie, more than 7 hours.