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04/24/2004: "Snake in the grass ....."

The weather today was quite simply glorious! Sunny, warm and blue skies. Beach weather in fact - so we decided to go inland yet again.

We ended up at Westleton Heath .... near historic Dunwich. This Link gives you more information about the Heath.

We walked for over 2 hours ... it was hot, very hot - jackets came off and we sweltered in the hot sun! Just as well we had bottles of drink with us! Just in case you wondered, the drinks were non-alchoholic!!

All in all it was an instructional walk (and oh boy - do my legs ache). I almost saw a lizard - Dave saw it and I was just too late. There were all kinds of things ... zillions of pine cones, wild tiny violet flowers, unusual wasps and much more but .... I think it was the highlight of my day .... was it?

I actually saw an Adder snake - the first one I have ever seen in the wild. I will not be going far off the track with these things around! The strange thing is the colour - in real life the adder seemed to have a light olive green colour - this does not really show in the pic below.

As soon as I saw its head going back .... it was time to move. I've seen those snake programmes and that snake did not like me one little bit. RETREAT !!