Mount Surprise - QLD

23rd July - 25th July 2014

There was not heaps to do at Mount Surprise but it was a great stop.  We met a lovely family also from Victoria.  Craig and Julie have two girls Ella and Keely.  We sat chatting and swapping stories for a long time, they are also on the road and have been travelling for 6 months. 

The manager of the Caravan park "Russell" is also a snake handler and does snake shows for the campers.  He bought out a black headed python and literally threw it around Ashton’s neck!  I'm glad Ashton had recently held a snake and wasn’t too phased by that!  The snake “Clancy” got passed around for all to have a hold off and then was rewarded with some dinner.  Russell went over to a cage and grabbed out a live rat and gave it to Clancy to firstly kill by strangling, and then devour for dinner.  Quite a fascinating but disgusting site to see!  This process took about 30 minutes as Clancy wasn’t a very quick eater.  Russell also bought out another of his pets “Molly” the water python.  Josh had a great time with Molly until she got quite friendly wrapping herself around his neck 3 times.  Poor Josh was bright red but Russell assured me Molly was just trying to warm herself up and not strangle my son!  I don’t particularly like snakes and didn’t hold any, but l did touch the skin which was enough for me.  We then had to endure watching Molly eat her dinner too!  

Tomorrow we are off to Croydon!

                  The town of Mount Surprise                                            Ashton and Clancy

    

Very comfortable with Clancy

                                    Stu and Clancy                                                     Josh loving his cuddles!

Clancy eating his dinner!

 Josh and Molly

Molly's dinner

Clancy on the last bit of his dinner!