C,mon Jason you know I am just a quiet type of bloke.
only online.......
when I was about 4 I spend all day playing in my private pond near the driveway (caused from natural seepage), it had a heap of Crinia in it, I made the pond even better for them, and due to the fact I was raised by my dad and my brothers, I spent all my spare time at the pond... then we moved to Bangor, one of the first houses in the area, I was about 8 years old, had a Heath monitor burrow in my backyard, and a Eastern Bearded Dragon living in the big pile of dead trees they knocked down to build the houses in the front yard, snakes were very common, and we backed onto the bush..fantastic!!! then we moved again
to the burbs (South Caringbah) but was near the water..so I fished almost every day..went to Scouts..did a heap of camping... on one camp I bought a whip snake back with me in my billy ( hidden from dad), and kept it for about a year, also had at that time a few Broad tailed geckos and some GTF's someone gave me.. I also remember when I went to my mums house, she had a massive pile of bricks, every second weekend, I would move the pile of bricks from one side of the yard to the other to catch the blueys living under it, one time I found a clutch of new borns!!! I was stoked!! funnly enough, I never wanted to keep them, I always wanted to release them to see if I could find them again.. At our Caringbah house we had a pond, I used to drain it every now and then, and lift the whole pond out of the ground to catch Golden Crown snakes under it.... it took a whole day to do, and I probably did it about 20 times for 2 snakes... how deperate was I....and of course, I used to let them go again 20 minutes later... I only kept frogs through my later teens..was massively into fishing and ladies..and paid for that with kids in my early 20's..still kept only frogs..wasn't till my late 20's that I started keeping and breeding and within a few years I'd like to cut that all down again to a minimum and spend more time out in the bush and fishing....
