Double palindrome

View from Shipley Plateau, Blackheath

The pleasant weather has remained over the past few weeks and so we've been able to escape Sydney on a couple of occasions. It's always good to make the short trip up into the Blue Mountains and a recent visit to my in-laws turned up a couple of nice critters. There are often frogs of various sorts around the place and so the garden rock pools are always worth a look after rain.

Striped Marsh Frog

This time, however, the frogs were not alone and a little Blue Mountains Crowned Snake had fallen into one of the pools. Although they are venomous, their tiny fangs are too small to bite you and so, depite being pretty feisty characters, they are fairly harmless. This one got a bit animated but in the end I managed to rescue it with a shovel and set it on it's way.

Blue Mountains Crowned Snake aka Mustard-bellied Snake

It's also great to get a double palindrome on the car's odometer and trip clock. You have to entertain yourself somehow during the daily rush hour commute!