Trip 2: Henley Brook to Roe8
Purpose: Fauna clearing and translocation
Total Distance Travelled: 1680 km (so far!?!)
Distance Travelled Year to Date: 3080 km
What is the definition of a business executive? Broadly it refers to a person, usually in private enterprise, that is a principal decision maker determining the path of projects and the path of their own organization.
The stereotypical business exec is perceived to be a corporate bully boy or girl in a 'suit' that sips a latte, barks into his/her smart phone, wears shiny shoes (with or without heels) and rushes from one place to the next trying to look more important than all of the other suits on the terrace.
Environmental practitioners don't just challenge this sterotype; we belt it clean out of the park. Just the other day, whilst resolving pressing issues on a major urban development project I was not wearing a suit; I seldom do. Rather, I was wearing steel capped boots, King Gees, a fluoro orange shirt, service station sunnies and a plastic bucket on my head.
Where the terrace exec dodges traffic as he/she darts from hither to yonder, I was dodging spider webs, massive plumes of filthy black dust, falling trees and a traxcavator (dozer) that I swear was being driven by The Stig. Nevertheless, with phone in hand, I was still able to plot a course of events and that would contribute significantly to keeping the project on track.
But in moment of complete serendipity I am reminded that the real biology that feeds me and keeps me breathing is never very far away.
Dugites Pseudonaja affinis are highly mobile snakes that move swiftly and forage widely. Though they need to bask, which involves lying around in the sun, they are not often encountered even when one is actively searching. If you are lucky, you may see one dart across a track in front of you whilst you are driving. More often than not, the most you will see of this species is a track or a sloughed skin.
So you can only imagine how chuffed I was when, whilst solving the big issues on my iPhone out bush, this adorable little example literally cruised right up to my steel caps and fossicked around for a meal completely unperturbed by my presence.
The Hungry Snake - click here to go to youtube
Distance Travelled Year to Date: 3080 km
What is the definition of a business executive? Broadly it refers to a person, usually in private enterprise, that is a principal decision maker determining the path of projects and the path of their own organization.
The stereotypical business exec is perceived to be a corporate bully boy or girl in a 'suit' that sips a latte, barks into his/her smart phone, wears shiny shoes (with or without heels) and rushes from one place to the next trying to look more important than all of the other suits on the terrace.
Environmental practitioners don't just challenge this sterotype; we belt it clean out of the park. Just the other day, whilst resolving pressing issues on a major urban development project I was not wearing a suit; I seldom do. Rather, I was wearing steel capped boots, King Gees, a fluoro orange shirt, service station sunnies and a plastic bucket on my head.
Where the terrace exec dodges traffic as he/she darts from hither to yonder, I was dodging spider webs, massive plumes of filthy black dust, falling trees and a traxcavator (dozer) that I swear was being driven by The Stig. Nevertheless, with phone in hand, I was still able to plot a course of events and that would contribute significantly to keeping the project on track.
But in moment of complete serendipity I am reminded that the real biology that feeds me and keeps me breathing is never very far away.
Dugites Pseudonaja affinis are highly mobile snakes that move swiftly and forage widely. Though they need to bask, which involves lying around in the sun, they are not often encountered even when one is actively searching. If you are lucky, you may see one dart across a track in front of you whilst you are driving. More often than not, the most you will see of this species is a track or a sloughed skin.
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| When a snake sheds or sloughs the spectacle covering the eye also sloughs off; eerie but cool. |
So you can only imagine how chuffed I was when, whilst solving the big issues on my iPhone out bush, this adorable little example literally cruised right up to my steel caps and fossicked around for a meal completely unperturbed by my presence.
The Hungry Snake - click here to go to youtube
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